The social and behavioral sciences have always come with their fair share of jargon. Territoriality. Kinesics. Affective events theory. Pygmalion effect. Dystopia. Cacotopia. Those last two even mean the same thing. Sometimes it seems like doing social science means learning another language.

That's why we're releasing everything that we've learned about social science terminology as the first installment in our new Terminology Service. Go to concepts.sagepub.com and click around to discover information on over 61,000 concepts in the social and behavioral sciences, such as definitions of key terms and how they relate to other concepts. You can search for a specific concept, or try clicking the 'Hierarchy' tab and browse through the social sciences from the top down.

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