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EXPERIENCE BASED PERSPECTIVES OF AN “OLD ACADEMIC” ON “FALSE EMPIRICISM” AND “FEIGNED WOKISM” IN SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE: SHALL THE TWAIN EVER MEET?

By Erwin Schwella CONTEXT It is famously, or maybe infamously said that: Old academics do not die, they just lose their faculties; and Academic battles are so fierce because the stakes are so low! In context to what follows, this may be two initial and further false antinomies. In my South African academic and professional social science career of close to 50 years, from being a carefree if not careless student, to becoming a more cautious academic as a perpetual student,