# Hans Geser (geser.net)

> The personal site of the Swiss sociologist Hans Geser (1947–2025), professor at the
> University of Zurich: his complete publication list, the texts available online in full,
> his teaching pages, and the entrances to the research sites he built on socio.ch. Kept
> 1999–2025, online unchanged since. Texts are in German and English; most papers are PDFs.
> Every historical URL still works.

## Start here

- [Front page](https://geser.net/)
- [In memory of Hans Geser](/hans-geser/): biography, dates, portrait
- [Complete Publication List](https://geser.net/schriften.html): Schriftenverzeichnis: books, articles and reports since 1969
- [Online Publikationen](https://geser.net/pub.html): His texts that are available in full online, by field
- [Lehre](https://geser.net/teaching.html): Courses and seminars at the University of Zurich, 1997–2012
- [Sitemap](https://geser.net/sitemap.xml): every text on this site

## Recent publications (his own list)

- [Between Life Ticker and Autobiography](https://geser.net/intcom/t_hgeser27.pdf)
- [Self-guided and Party-guided Ideological Orientations](https://geser.net/par/ges_19.pdf)
- [The three-dimensional Evolution of Human Work](https://geser.net/arbeit/t_hgeser8.pdf)
- [Leftism and Ecologism in an International Comparative Perspective](https://geser.net/internat/t_hgeser9.pdf)
- [Has Tweeting become Inevitable?](https://socio.ch/intcom/t_hgeser26.pdf)
- [Waffensysteme als «derivierte Akteure». Kampfroboter im asymmetrischen Krieg](https://www.tatup.de/index.php/tatup/article/view/796)
- [Parteipolitische Polarisierungen in lokalen Parteisystemen und kommunalen Exekutiven](https://geser.net/gem/t_hgeser17.pdf)
- [Kakophonie und Selbstorganisation in der digitalen Agora](https://geser.net/intcom/t_hgeser23.pdf)

## His research sites on socio.ch

- [Sociology in Switzerland](https://socio.ch/): The online library: his research, Georg Simmel, the theses of his students
- [Wandel der Arbeitswelt](https://socio.ch/work/home.htm)
- [Schweizer Gemeindestudien](https://socio.ch/gem/index_gem.htm)
- [Politik und Parteien im Wandel](https://socio.ch/par/)
- [Sociology of the Mobile Phone](https://socio.ch/mobile/index_mobile.htm)
- [Towards Cybersociety](https://socio.ch/intcom/index.htm)
- [Georg Simmel online](https://socio.ch/sim/index.htm)

## Notes

- Authorship: files named t_hgeser*.pdf, t_geser*.pdf and ges_*.pdf are his own papers; a few
  hosted texts by other authors are marked as such on the pages that link them.
- Citation: cite the URL as it is; the site guarantees stable addresses. Earlier versions of every
  page are in the Internet Archive (https://web.archive.org/web/*/geser.net/*).
- Contact for corrections or takedown requests: hg@socio.ch