Meaning of cooptation | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Dated spelling of cooptation.
   uncountable
2. A co-opting: a commandeering, appropriation, or taking over.
   countable, uncountable
3. A co-opting: an absorption or assimilation.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“This book is a study of co-optation rather than counterculture, an analysis of the forces and logic that made rebel youth cultures so attractive to corporate decision-makers rather than a study of those cultures themselves. In doing so, it risks running afoul of what I will call the co-optation theory: faith in the revolutionary potential of "authentic" counterculture combined with the notion that business mimics and mass-produces fake counterculture in order to cash in on a particular demographic and to subvert the great threat that "real" counterculture represents.”

“It may be observed that the draft rules make no provision for coöptation, an arrangement that appears nevertheless in the rules of many local associations.”

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