in-group

or in·group

[ in-groop ]

/ ˈɪnˌgrup /

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noun

a narrow exclusive group; clique.

Sociology. a group of people sharing similar interests and attitudes, producing feelings of solidarity, community, and exclusivity. Compare out-group.

Origin of in-group

First recorded in 1905–10; in-¹ + group

Words nearby in-group

in-car, in-crowd, in-depth, in-flight, in-goal, in-group, in-home, in-house, in-joke, in-kind, in-law

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Affection, after all, is what the in-group use of the n-word expresses.

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Our research indicates they can end up having a similar effect to an 'in-group' in high school that others aspire to join.

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It would be easy to dismiss this “small town” idea as a code for an in-group whose happy few run everything through their network.

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Comrades in an in-group have never forced these on each other.

Folkways |William Graham Sumner

He describes the transition from contacts of the out-group to those of the in-group, or from remote to intimate relations.

Introduction to the Science of Sociology |Robert E. Park
This control by the in-group over its members makes for solidity and impenetrability in its relations with the out-group.

Introduction to the Science of Sociology |Robert E. Park
The in-group when it is merged in a state by conquest and compounding becomes a peace unit.

Folkways |William Graham Sumner
In the in-group it was so far from being an act of hostility, or veiled impropriety, that it was applied to the closest kin.

Folkways |William Graham Sumner

British Dictionary definitions for in-group

in-group

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sociol a highly cohesive and relatively closed social group characterized by the preferential treatment reserved for its members and the strength of loyalty between them Compare out-group

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