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
noun
sociola highly cohesive and relatively closed social group characterized by the preferential treatment reserved for its members and the strength of loyalty between themCompare out-group