Statistical Production of a Social Worker : An Improbable Social Cognitive Configuration ?
The article presents the initiative of a new type of “ entrepreneurs ” of knowledge production in order to discuss the methods of knowledge necessary to social action on one hand and also on the classical division of the knowledge production in the social field. The thesis is to defend the possibility of collective or collaborative development of knowledge of the social world that can emerge, on one hand, from a form of governance that do not depend on the state or its agencies or institutional bodies and on another hand, from the development of geomatic tools. The case presented here refers to a community social worker who is also a sociologist. His story and his thoughts that he worked out with his colleague ultimately serve to set the terms of the debate on both cognitive and social production of knowledge in the world.