“…Thus, science, and, hence, also Sociology, are influenced by internal and external factors (Almeida, 1994;Bartolucci, 2017;Machado Júnior, Souza, Parisotto, & Palmisano, 2016;Hamati-Ataya, 2018;Au, 2018;Zuckerman, 2018;Tang, 2017;Jedlikowska, 2016;Christoffersen et al, 2009;Tanguy, 2012), requiring a "constant socio-epistemological vigilance" (Hamati-Ataya, 2018, p. 15).…”