Discipline Discipline refers to rule following behavior, to regulate, order, control and authority. It may also refer to punishment. Discipline is used to create habits, routines, and automatic mechanisms such as blind obedience. It may be inflicted on ot ...

is any training intended to produce a specific character or pattern of behaviour. Discipline may also refer to:

General

* Discipline (academia), a specific branch of knowledge, learning and practice, such as an academic or professional discipline *

Discipline (BDSM) Discipline in BDSM is the practice in which the dominant sets rules which the submissive is expected to obey. When rules of expected behaviour are broken, punishment is often used as a means of disciplining. Punishment In BDSM, rules can be mad ...

, an element of BDSM *

Disciplinary procedure In a deliberative assembly, disciplinary procedures are used to punish members for violating the rules of the assembly. Codes and rules According to Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised (RONR), discipline could include censure, fine, suspension ...

, censure under rules of assembly *

Punishment Punishment, commonly, is the imposition of an undesirable or unpleasant outcome upon a group or individual, meted out by an authority—in contexts ranging from child discipline to criminal law—as a response and deterrent to a particular a ...

, an imposition of something negative on a person or animal in response to behavior deemed wrong *

Military discipline Military justice (also military law) is the legal system (bodies of law and procedure) that governs the conduct of the active-duty personnel of the armed forces of a country. In some nation-states, civil law and military law are distinct bodies ...

, the ability and willingness of a military's soldiery to follow orders and act as commanded.

Christianity

Church discipline Church discipline is the practice of church members calling upon an individual within the Church to repent for their sins. Church discipline is performed when one has sinned or gone against the rules of the church. Church discipline is practiced wi ...

, a response of an ecclesiastical body to an offence against its standards of belief or conduct committed by a member of that body *

Discipline (mortification) A discipline is a small scourge (whip) used as an instrument of penance by members of some Christian denominations (including Anglicans, Lutherans, and Roman Catholics, among others) in the spiritual discipline known as mortification of the fle ...

, a type of scourge used in the Christian spiritual discipline known as the mortification of the flesh

Music

Discipline (band) Discipline is an American progressive rock band formed in 1987 by singer-songwriter Matthew Parmenter. Based in Detroit, Michigan the band has released five studio albums, two live albums, a live DVD, and a live concert motion picture. Discip ...

, an independent rock band from Detroit *

The Disciplines The Disciplines is a garage rock band from Oslo, Norway, led by singer Ken Stringfellow (The Posies, R.E.M. and Big Star). Discography Albums *'' Smoking Kills'' (2009), Voices of Wonder (Norway/DK), Weekender (UK), 2Fer-PIAS(Spain), Second ...

, a Norwegian garage-rock band * Discipline, the name of a mid-1981 line-up of

King Crimson King Crimson are a progressive rock band formed in 1968 in London, England. The band draws inspiration from a wide variety of music, incorporating elements of classical, jazz, folk, heavy metal, gamelan, industrial, electronic, experime ...

* Discipline GM, an independent record label founded by Robert Fripp

Albums

* ''Discipline'' (Cadaver Inc. album) * ''Discipline'' (Desmond Child album) * ''Discipline'' (Janet Jackson album) * ''Discipline'' (King Crimson album) * ''Discipline'' (Kompressor album)

Songs

* "Discipline" (instrumental), by King Crimson * "Discipline" (Nine Inch Nails song) * "Discipline" (Throbbing Gristle song) * "Discipline", a song by Cadaver Inc. from their album of the same name * "Discipline", a song by Desmond Child from his album of the same name * "Discipline", a song by Gang Starr from '' Full Clip: A Decade of Gang Starr'' * "Discipline", a song by Janet Jackson from her album of the same name * "Discipline", a song by Orelsan from '' La fête est finie - Épilogue''

Other media

* ''Discipline'', a 1814 novel by