{
  "id": "in-group.inside",
  "term": "in-group",
  "sense": "inside",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 16,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "The members a collective self reads as inside its boundary.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "collective-self.shared",
      "member.social",
      "read.information",
      "inside.spatial",
      "boundary.limit"
    ],
    "interaction": "Drawing a boundary around some members makes a second set of things at once: those left out. The in-group is the inside of that line as the collective self reads it.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "a boundary drawn by a model, not by space",
      "insideness that must be kept up"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "out-group.outside",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "the other side of the same line"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "bharat-vs-india.names",
    "buy-local.firms",
    "diaspora-vote.abroad",
    "heartland.core",
    "middle-class.centre",
    "nation-of-immigrants.arrival",
    "north-south-divide.regional",
    "one-nation.whole",
    "one-percent.few",
    "ordinary-people.core",
    "real-people.narrowed",
    "second-class-citizens.lesser",
    "silent-majority.unheard",
    "us-versus-them.split",
    "we-the-people.setter",
    "working-families.broad"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "in group",
    "in groups",
    "ingroup",
    "ingroups"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-29",
    "confidence": 0.85,
    "sources": [
      "schema/power-agency-phase.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-in-group.inside"
}