The Other is a term used to capture the ways other people are different from us. It’s also used to describe the people who we keep distant from us because we decide they’re not like us. The process of Othering occurs when we turn fellow humans into abstract entities we can distance ourselves from or treat as less-than-human.

In classical sociology, "other" is a concept in the study of social life through which we define relationships. We encounter two distinct types of others in relation to ourselves.