Compromise in a pluralistic project-group: the activities of the broker of Worlds in the elaboration of a compromise convention

Our research examines a project group from a Social Work Training Establishment (SWTE), which uses a new social intervention approach to initiate innovative actions.The SWTE pluralistic context and its difficulty in embracing new Worlds that penetrate it, lead us to call upon the literature on the Economies of Worth.The conventionalist perspective studies the notion of a competent actor able to elaborate compromises, but this notion has not been studied thoroughly by the literature.We intend to respond to this "research gap" by looking at the activities deployed by the pilot of the project-group and formulating the following research question: "What are the activities of the pilot of a project-group in a pluralistic context, embedded in different worlds, that lead the actors who compose it to develop a compromise convention to launch innovative initiatives?".To understand this actor, we draw on the work/research on knowledge brokers and boundary objects.The methodology is based on a participant observation by one of the authors, an employee of the SWTE under study.The material thus collected is supplemented by two rounds of interviews, over the period 2018-2022.The data are coded using a plan derived from the theoretical framework of analysis and emerging codes.