ABSTRACT
The bourgeoisie," wrote Marx and Engels, "wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. Marx and Engels wrote: "The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage-laborers. The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation." A great deal of the weakness of academic structure that the student revolts of the 1960s highlighted for the first time came directly from the kinds of role conflicts, blurrings of identity, and psychological tensions directly caused by the eruption of the new bourgeoisie. Once, to be a physicist or sociologist meant beyond any possible question that one held academic rank in a college or university.
