ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that academic patterns of power, pretense, and piggybacking turn up some ethical issues of interest. In the creation of ethical issues, academic life is bountiful. Some students cheat, probably the brighter more successfully; and it is conceivable that the university is fruitful soil for wedding amorality and sharpness. The issues were sharply debated as sociologists worked toward a code of professional conduct. Piggybacking is at work when inquiry and learning are subverted by activities in support of miscellaneous causes and above all, by research activity when, in search of cash and kudos, it prompts us to neglect the teaching for which we are paid. Farmworkers have declined until they are a mere 4 percent of the labor force; and the occupations that have come to dominate—industrial, commercial, and service occupations—are closed to the young.
