ˈout-group
[Cf. out a. 1.]
Those people not necessarily forming a group themselves, who are excluded from or do not belong to a specific in-group; also attrib. Hence out-ˈgrouper, an individual who does not belong to a specific in-group.
| 1907 [see in-group]. 1934 K. Young Introd. Sociol. i. i. 13 One is prejudiced against the members of the out⁓group. 1949 R. K. Merton Social Theory ii. vii. 186 The systematic condemnation of the out-grouper continues largely irrespective of what he does. 1952 M. McCarthy Groves of Academe (1953) vi. 119 Where discrimination exists, protection of the out-group is mandatory. 1967 M. Argyle Psychol. Interpersonal Behaviour iv. 71 Two people from different groups are apt to treat each other as ‘outsiders’, members of the out-group, and to reject one another through their failure to conform to the norms of the in-group. 1970 Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. Oct. 259 An error was considered..outgroup intrusion if a word paired with a dissimilar stimulus was elicited. 1970 C. T. Restrepo in I. L. Horowitz Masses in Lat. Amer. xiv. 516 Violence developed the conflict with respect to the out-group and institutionalized it. 1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 2 Jan. 2/4 Gypsy legends..provide a charter for the in-group rather than the out-group reference of their morality. |