"legitimate discipline" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a just and reasonable system of rules and punishments. For example, "At this school, we practice legitimate discipline to ensure that all students have the opportunity to learn without disruption."
But five hours with five forecasters was enough to persuade one skeptic that forecasting trends in the design world — finding order and meaning in the mishmash of consumer culture — is as much legitimate discipline as bogus science.
There was also a need for broader recognition of linguistics as a legitimate discipline.
Domestic chastisement was once considered legitimate discipline of one's wife and marital rape was excluded from the definition of rape in many criminal law statutes.
Recent years have seen the rise of systems biology as a legitimate discipline.
Condemnatory attitudes and limited awareness, knowledge or acceptance of geriatrics as a legitimate discipline can manifest in inaccessible or poor quality care.
Negative attitudes and limited awareness, knowledge or acceptance of geriatrics as a legitimate discipline contribute to inaccessible and poor quality care for India's old.
It is not the same as inter-disciplinary (an encounter of legitimate disciplines' positions).
Teaching at a community college amongst Iñupiat Eskimos was ideal for reinforcing my lack of expertise in any single legitimate scientific discipline.
A number of influential visionaries prophetically elaborated on these robust theoretical foundations, and so injury control was established as a legitimate scientific discipline.
"It is bad policy because it means that perfectly legitimate school discipline polices can be struck down or abandoned because they have politically incorrect statistical results," said Clegg on Tuesday, before the new executive order had been announced. .
In a process that Foucault called "normalization," a supposedly objective social science labels as "normal" or "rational" behaviour that society deems respectable or desirable, so behaviour deemed otherwise becomes abnormal or irrational and a legitimate object of discipline or coercion.
