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Definition of Outgroups
1. outgroup [n] - See also: outgroup
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outgroups
Literary usage of Outgroups
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Understanding HIV/AIDS Stigma: A Theoretical and Methodological Analysisby Harriet Deacon, Inez Stephney, Sandra Prosalendis by Harriet Deacon, Inez Stephney, Sandra Prosalendis (2005)
"This allows people to highlight characteristics which would increase risk of
contracting the disease in representations of existing outgroups, ..."
2. Violence in South Africa: A Variety of Perspectives by Elirea Bornman, René Van Eeden, Marie Wentzel (1998)
"Moreover, their identification with the group leads to social competition with
and discrimination against outgroups in an attempt to put the ingroup in a ..."
3. Identity? Theory, Politics, History: Theory, Politics, History by S. B. Bekker, Rachel Prinsloo (1999)
"It appears as if social contact with outgroups in a pleasant and relaxed atmosphere
decreases awareness of an exclusive ethnic group membership among ..."
4. Remember Your Humanity: International Student/Young Pugwash Yearbook 2005 by Arthur Petersen, Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra (2006)
"Foreign policy is at a very high end on a spectrum of conversational explicitness
because it concerns relations with outgroups; outgroups serve the dual ..."
5. Formative Influences of Legal Development by Albert Kocourek, John Henry Wigmore (1918)
"... of plunder-exchange folk-customs inherited from a previous phase of tribal
society, and morally excused by the persistence in outgroups of the primitive ..."
6. Dwarf Mistletoes: Biology, Pathology, and Systematics by Frank G. Hawksworth, Delbert Wiens (1998)
"... album were used as outgroups. These species have been shown via global analysis
of representatives of the entire order to be outside the Viscaceae. ..."
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