{"id":32451,"date":"2021-03-20T19:15:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T00:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=32451"},"modified":"2021-03-20T19:15:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T00:15:54","slug":"word-of-the-day-663","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/03\/20\/word-of-the-day-663\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Co-optation<\/em>:<\/p>\n<div id=\"collapseExample0\" class=\"doccontentwrapper collapse show\">\n<blockquote><p><strong>co-optation<\/strong> A term devised by Philip Selznick (see\u00a0TVA and the Grass Roots\u00a01949), to refer to a political process found especially in formally democratic or committee-governed organizations and systems, as a way of managing opposition and so preserving stability and the organization. Non-elected outsiders are \u2018co-opted\u2019 by being given formal or informal power on the grounds of their \u00e9lite status, specialist knowledge, or potential ability to threaten essential commitments or goals. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.encyclopedia.com\/social-sciences\/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases\/co-optation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">encyclopedia.com<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/mtracey.substack.com\/p\/officially-decamping-to-substack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Officially decamping to Substack-land<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Michael Tracy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And it\u2019s not just the\u00a0<em>NYT<\/em>, which in some ways is the lowest hanging fruit \u2014 a similar species of conformity is pervasive even in self-appointed\u00a0<em>Bold, Adversarial, Alternative\u00a0<\/em>media. I worked for awhile at\u00a0<em>The Young Turks<\/em>, and while I was given an admirable amount of autonomy and have no personal grievances at all with anyone there, one thing you find is that the subtle constraints of institutional conformity over time creep into your psyche at an almost subconscious level. Even if you\u2019ve made what you thought was a fully conscious, proactive decision to willfully buck those constraints. That kind of co-optation is nothing new re: the human experience, but it makes you marvel at the extent of the stifling that must be present in other institutions whose inhabitants are obliged make constant accommodations and tradeoffs in order to survive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps not used strictly within the definition, but with a certain informality.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-optation: co-optation A term devised by Philip Selznick (see\u00a0TVA and the Grass Roots\u00a01949), to refer to a political process found especially in formally democratic or committee-governed organizations and systems, as a way of managing opposition and so preserving stability and the organization. Non-elected outsiders are \u2018co-opted\u2019 by being given formal \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/03\/20\/word-of-the-day-663\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32452,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32451\/revisions\/32452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}