Process-oriented methodology support to social interventions: The use of Deleuze's theory of assemblages

Dealing with ‘the social’, Deleuze and Guattari (1987) proposed the concept of an assemblage that is only grasped in the dynamic relation between the strata (e.g. the plane of organizations, organisms, signs and subjects) and the plane of immanence (where everything is in a state of transformation). Exploring the complex relationship between ‘the social’ and its assemblages, we argue that process-oriented methodology should be conceptualized as critical action research that is required to produce the ‘process–generated data’ in the form of Deleuze’s sense of an event during the process of social intervention which includes ‘judgement systems’. Such judgement systems are necessary for generating knowledge that supports social interventions in order to make or produce ‘events data’, which are developed from a collective whose members appreciate which value to assign and select in the process of decision-making towards the democratic process of social intervention.