coopt

Cooptative Participation--The origins of cooptative participation can be traced to the classic study by Coch and French (1948), who found that people reacted more favorably and became more committed when they participated in decision making processes than when they did not.

In the clash between modernity and its humanistic opponents, he clearly has something else in mind that might reduce this cooptative potential.

For instance, asking a group to define a problem is less cooptative than coming up with both problems and solutions.