out group

out group
Synonyms and related words:
Jim Crow, age group, alien, apartheid, band, battalion, bevy, body, brigade, bunch, cabal, cast, clique, cohort, color bar, company, complement, contingent, corps, coterie, covey, crew, crowd, detachment, detail, division, ethnocentrism, exclusiveness, faction, fleet, foreigner, gang, group, grouping, groupment, in-group, insularity, insulation, isolation, junta, know-nothingism, mob, movement, narrowness, outcast, outfit, outsider, pack, parochialism, party, peer group, persona non grata, phalanx, platoon, posse, quarantine, race hatred, racial segregation, regiment, salon, seclusion, segregation, separation, set, snobbishness, squad, stable, stranger, string, team, tightness, tribe, troop, troupe, wing, xenophobia

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  • out-group — [out′gro͞op΄] n. all the people not belonging to a specific in group …   English World dictionary

  • out-group — out′ group n. soc a group outside one s own with which one feels no sense of identity Compare in group • Etymology: 1905–10 …   From formal English to slang

  • out-group — /owt groohp /, n. Sociol. people outside one s own group, esp. as considered to be inferior or alien; a group perceived as other than one s own. Cf. in group. [1905 10; OUT + GROUP] * * * …   Universalium

  • out-group — In his classic study of Folkways (1906), William Graham Sumner observed that people tend to like their own group (the in group) over other competing or opposing groups (the out group). The terms are closely linked to the concept of… …   Dictionary of sociology

  • Out-group homogeneity — The outgroup homogeneity effect is one s perception of out group members as more similar to one another than are in group members. I.e. they are alike; we are diverse .[1] The outgroup homogeneity effect, or relative outgroup homogeniety has been …   Wikipedia

  • Out-group illusion — The Out group illusion is the tendency to blame an undesirable language trend on a particular group of people when it is in fact the product of widespread usage. See also * Adolescent illusion * Antiquity illusion * Infrequency illusion * Recency …   Wikipedia

  • out-group — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun Etymology: out (III) + group : a social group that is distinct from one s own and so usually an object of hostility or dislike compare ingroup …   Useful english dictionary

  • out-group — noun Date: circa 1907 a group that is distinct from one s own and so usually an object of hostility or dislike compare in group 1 …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • out-group — noun those who do not belong to an in group …   English new terms dictionary

  • out-group — /ˈaʊt grup/ (say owt groohp) noun Sociology everyone not belonging to an in group …  

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