[Gerontology--Multi-, inter- and transdisciplinarity in theory and practise?]. / Gerontologie--Multi-, Inter- und Transdisziplinarität in Theorie und Praxis?

Given the suggestion to establish gerontology as an independent scientific discipline, the paper discusses the options for further development. It is argued that multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity are the only alternatives that should be explicitly highlighted as a special feature of gerontology and that advantages and disadvantages of these alternatives should be discussed further.

[The Doxa of the social-gerontological field: successful and productive aging-orthodoxy, heterodoxy or allodoxy?]. / Zur Doxa des sozialgerontologischen Feldes: Erfolgreiches und produktives Altern-Orthodoxie, Heterodoxie oder Allodoxie?

Without any precise or consistent definition, the imagination of successful and productive aging has meanwhile become the basic illusio of the (psycho) gerontological field. The article examines to what extent a utilitarian term like success can be applied to the aging process. It examines further, if the imagination of successful aging is a faulty representation (allodoxy) of aging, which was brought in as a consciously antipodal system of explanation (heterodoxy) nourished by the attempt to set something positive against the negative societal stereotypes of aging, thus, deceiving itself being the prevailing modus of interpretation (orthodoxy) in the socio-gerontological field.