Feedback as a space of confrontation between pluralistic knowledge: The case of a research intervention
This contribution examines interrelationships between the scientific and socio-political spheres by analyzing confrontations of pluralistic knowledge over the course of an initial intermediate feedback of results. Specifically, this time of presentations and information exchanges with sponsors (a municipality) took place in the context of a study of “young people living their youth”. In the context of the research intervention, the aim was to understand how this situation of interaction would contribute to developing common knowledge and to connecting issues of science and politics. To do so, the sociology of translation (Callon, 1989) and the spiral of knowledge (Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1997) were mobilized in order to examine the discourse produced by the feedback of results. Semantic and thematic analysis of the discourse and interactions brings to light the premises of a shared knowledge that enables reinvestment in praxis.