pseudo-discipline

See also: pseudodiscipline

English

Etymology

pseudo- +‎ discipline

Noun

pseudo-discipline (plural pseudo-disciplines)

1. Alternative spelling of pseudodiscipline (area of study that has a limited resemblance to an academic discipline)
   • 2007, H. J. W. Mutsaers, Peasants, Farmers and Scientists: A Chronicle of Tropical Agricultural Science in the Twentieth Century, page 350:

     Project Cycle Management with its methodological frills had now become another jargon-studded pseudo-discipline which could only be mastered after extensive training.

2. A false or ineffective imposition of punishment to maintain control.
   • 1919, Herbert Ellsworth Cory, The Intellectuals and the Wage Workers: A Study in Educational Psychoanalysis, page 244:

     But all this is not worthy of the name of discipline; it is pseudo-discipline as we shall see.