Citations:pseudodiscipline

An area of study that has a limited resemblance to an academic discipline.
 * 1974, John Somerville, Howard L. Parsons, Dialogues on the Philosophy of Marxism: From the Proceedings of the Society for the Philosophical Study of Dialectical Materialism, page 77:
 * If this is the kind of reasoning that "dialectical logic" encourages, the chief function of that pseudodiscipline would seem to be to facilitate conceptual confusion.
 * 1987, Brent Wilson, Harlan Hoffa, The History of Art Education: Proceedings from the Penn State Conference, page 100:
 * In addition, political studies in such pseudodisciplines as "scientific communism" or "Marxism-Leninism" are required for graduation.
 * 1990, Margaret Chatterjee, The Philosophy of Nikunja Vihari Banerjee, page 41:
 * To consider philosophy as a pseudo-discipline is to take a distorted view of human nature.
 * 1999, Robert Greene, The Death and Life of Philosophy, page 78:
 * False problems arise and multiply, and a pseudo-discipline comes into being.
 * 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.
 * 2008, Michael Blowfield, Alan Murray, Corporate Responsibility: A Critical Introduction, page 2:
 * That advice has included that corporate responsibility is a fad and thus has no place in business schools or elsewhere in higher education; that it is a pseudo-discipline, lacking analytical rigour, and therefore should simply be absorbed into other disciplines, rather than be treated as a subject in its own right; that it is too new and fragile, yet too crucial to the future of the modern corporation, to risk its being damaged by a discussion of its weaknesses instead of only praising its strengths.
 * 2009, Vladislav Zubok, V. M Zubok, Zhivago's Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia, page 381:
 * In October 1956 the Academy of Sciences held a session that legitimated cybernetics, which had been denounced by Stalinist science and propaganda as a pseudodiscipline.
 * 2010, Gregory Alles, Religious Studies: A Global View, page 276:
 * This respect for freedom of religion results in theology being seen as a pseudodiscipline within the university.
 * 2011, Bradley Lewis, Narrative Psychiatry: How Stories Can Shape Clinical Practice, page 18:
 * If we take a narrative turn, won't we once again be seen by our medical colleagues as a pseudodiscipline—out of touch with the tough-minded realities of the brain and science?

A false or ineffective imposition of punishment to maintain control.
 * 1854, The Calcutta Review, volume 22, page xvii:
 * When will such button and tape nonsense, and such cruelly mischievous pseudo-discipline be put down for good and for ever?
 * 1905, Arnold White, E. Hallam Moorhouse, Nelson and the Twentieth Century, page 197:
 * In war time the majority of naval officers would soon recognise this fact, but pseudo-discipline is erecting insurmountable barriers between officers and men which will not be easily demolished when emergency arises.
 * 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.