Ingroup

Ingroup

In sociology, an ingroup is a social group towards which an individual feels loyalty and respect, usually due to membership in the group. This loyalty often manifests itself as an ingroup bias. Commonly encountered ingroups include family members, people of the same race, culture or religion, and so on. Research demonstrates that people often privilege ingroup members over outgroup members even when the ingroup has no actual social standing; for instance, a group of people with the same color shirts, when the other group has another color of shirt. [cite web|url=http://jbd.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/31/5/433|title=Effects of physical atypicality on children's social identities and intergroup attitudes|author=Meagan M. Patterson, Rebecca S. Bigler] The term originates from social identity theory.

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* [http://longlivescience.com/evolution/the-power-of-tribes-in-evolution/116/ Ingroup loyalty, outgroup hostility: The power of tribes in evolution]


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  • ingroup — noun In cladistics, the monophyletic group that includes all taxa of interest to the current study. A cladistic analysis of 45 ingroup and two outgroup taxa was performed on the basis of 134 characters. Ant: outgroup …   Wiktionary

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  • Ingroup bias — is the preferential treatment people give to whom they perceive to be members of their own groups. Experiments in psychology have shown that group members will award one another higher payoffs even when the group they share seems random and… …   Wikipedia

  • ingroup — in a cladistic analysis, the set of taxa which are hypothesized to be more closely related to each other than any are to the outgroup, a monophyletic group (usually the one being studied) …   Dictionary of ichthyology

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  • Ingroup — In|group [ ingru:p] die; , s <aus gleichbed. engl. in group> [soziale] Gruppe, zu der man gehört u. der man sich innerlich stark verbunden fühlt; Eigengruppe, Wir Gruppe (Soziol.); Ggs. ↑Outgroup …   Das große Fremdwörterbuch

  • ingroup — n. clique, small exclusive group which shares a common interest or goal (Sociology) …   English contemporary dictionary

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