https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Academia-on-the-Run https://booksandideas.net/Academia-on-the-Run 2016-09-19T07:00:00Z text/html en Isaac William Martin Society United States of America professional ethics sociology ethnography <p>Two years ago Alice Goffman published <i>On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American Ghetto</i> —first attracting great praises, then even greater controversy. While most criticisms focused on the accuracy of the ethnographic research and some were pertinent, they might have been distractions from what was really disturbing sociologists at the time: the intrusion of market economy in academia.</p>