Derogatory label use extends beyond ethnicity to any clearly categorized social group

Evidence

Other research confirms the basic premise that the use of ethnophaulisms is a reflection of social categorization across a range social groups beyond ethnic groups. Ethnophaulisms have been documented in the context of artificial laboratory groups (e.g., Mullen & Johnson, 1995), as well as in terms of derision by physicians towards undesirable patients (e.g., Coombs et al., 1993), by normal weight individuals towards overweight individuals (e.g., Cossrow, Jeffery, & McGuire, 2001), and by men and women towards one another (e.g., Grossman & Tucker, 1997). In each case, these nonethnic ingroups and outgroups are defined by clear social categorizations. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1269

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes ‘ethnophaulism’ as a category name and shows its scope extends to lab groups, patients, weight, and gender.