Discipline vs. Methodology — What's the Difference?

Discipline is action or inaction that is regulated to be in accordance (or to achieve accord) with a particular system of governance. Discipline is commonly applied to regulating human and animal behavior to its society or environment it belongs.

Methodology is "'a contextual framework' for research, a coherent and logical scheme based on views, beliefs, and values, that guides the choices researchers [or other users] make".It comprises the theoretical analysis of the body of methods and principles associated with a branch of knowledge such that the methodologies employed from differing disciplines vary depending on their historical development. This creates a continuum of methodologies that stretch across competing understandings of how knowledge and reality are best understood.

Training expected to produce a specific character or pattern of behavior, especially training that produces moral or mental improvement

A system of methods used in a particular area of study or activity

Control obtained by enforcing compliance or order

A body of practices, procedures, and rules used by those who work in a discipline or engage in an inquiry; a set of working methods

Controlled behavior resulting from disciplinary training; self-control

The study or theoretical analysis of such working methods.

A state of order based on submission to rules and authority

The branch of logic that deals with the general principles of the formation of knowledge.

Punishment intended to correct or train

The study of methods used in a field.

A set of rules or methods, as those regulating the practice of a church or monastic order.

(loosely) A collection of methods, practices, procedures and rules used by those who work in some field.

A branch of knowledge or teaching

The implementation of such methods etc.

To train by instruction and practice, as in following rules or developing self-control

The science of method or arrangement; a treatise on method.

To punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience.

The branch of philosophy that analyzes the principles and procedures of inquiry in a particular discipline

To impose order on

The system of methods followed in a particular discipline

A controlled behaviour; self-control.

An enforced compliance or control.

A systematic method of obtaining obedience.

A state of order based on submission to authority.

A set of rules regulating behaviour.

A punishment to train or maintain control.

A specific branch of knowledge or learning.

A category in which a certain art, sport or other activity belongs.

(transitive) To train someone by instruction and practice.

(transitive) To teach someone to obey authority.

(transitive) To punish someone in order to (re)gain control.

(transitive) To impose order on someone.

The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral.

Training to act in accordance with established rules; accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill.

Subjection to rule; submissiveness to order and control; habit of obedience.

Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc.

Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training.

The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge.

The enforcement of methods of correction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or penal action toward a church member.

Self-inflicted and voluntary corporal punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a penitential scourge.

A system of essential rules and duties; as, the Romish or Anglican discipline.

To educate; to develop by instruction and exercise; to train.

To accustom to regular and systematic action; to bring under control so as to act systematically; to train to act together under orders; to teach subordination to; to form a habit of obedience in; to drill.

To improve by corrective and penal methods; to chastise; to correct.

To inflict ecclesiastical censures and penalties upon.

A branch of knowledge;

A system of rules of conduct or method of practice;

The trait of being well behaved;

Training to improve strength or self-control

The act of punishing;

Train by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control;

Punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience;