Hans Geser

Hans Geser (born 26 March 1947 in Rapperswil) is a Swiss sociologist.

Geser was a professor at the University of Heidelberg from 1983 and was appointed to the University of Zurich in 1986, where he taught at the Sociological Institute until 2012. From 2002 to 2004 he was director of the Sociological Institute.

His research areas include political sociology, sociology of small states, community and party sociology, organizational and professional sociology, and new communication technologies, which is why he is also called the "Internet guru" among scientists.

Publications

Monographs

• Population size and state organization. Habilitation thesis, Peter Lang Verlag, Bern, 1981.
• Structural forms and functional performance of social systems. Westdeutscher Verlag, 1983.
• Local government and administration. Rüegger Verlag, Grüsch, 1987.
• Municipal politics between militia organization and professional administration. Haupt Verlag, Bern/Stuttgart. 1987.
• The Swiss local parties. Seismo Verlag, Zurich, 1994.
• Local Parties in Political and Organizational Perspective. Westview Publishing, Boulder Co. 1999.

Essays

• From Brockhaus to the Worldwide Wiki. In: Herbert Willems (ed.): Worldwide Worlds. Internet Figurations from a Sociological Perspective. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008, pp. 119–142.

External links

• Personal homepage of Hans Geser
• Hans Geser on the website of the University of Zurich
• Text archive socio.ch on Simmel and other sociologists