Considering the increased focus on law and order and crime in Sweden, the purpose of this thesis is to examine the political rhetoric on crime since 2002 on the Swedish parties the Moderate Party, the Social Democratic Party, and the Sweden Democrats. This is done through an analysis with the theory of securitization developed by Buzan, Wæver and de Wilde. Through analysis of election manifestos, motions, bills, and laws this study shows a shift towards a rhetoric that increasingly explains Sweden as a country “existentially” threatened by crime. At the same time, proposed action in the Swedish context becomes more far-reaching as emergency actions are legitimized by the presented threat of crime rates. The conclusion is that the Moderate Party and the Swedish Democrats today are making a securitization move, however that the question of law and order today is not securitized in Sweden. / Givet att lag och ordning är en av de viktigaste politiska frågorna i Sverige idag syftar studien till att undersöka Moderaternas, Socialdemokraternas och Sverigedemokraternas retorik i frågan sedan 2002. Analysen görs med hjälp av teorin om säkerhetisering av Buzan, Wæver och de Wilde (Köpenhamnsskolan). Genom en idéanalys med hjälp av en innehållsanalys av valmanifest, motioner, propositioner och lagar visar denna studie på ett skifte i partiernas retorik, som i ökad utsträckning målar upp ett säkerhetshot kring brottslighet, vilket alltmer kan liknas vid ett “existentiellt” hot. Samtidigt har föreslagna åtgärder blivit alltmer långtgående. Utifrån säkerhetiseringsteorin kan detta förklaras med att nödåtgärder legitimeras när ett säkerhetshot presenteras. Slutsatserna är att Moderaterna och Sverigedemokraterna gör ett så kallat säkerhetiseringsförsök, men att frågan om lag och ordning idag inte är säkerhetiserad i Sverige.

Work is an essential part of most people’s lives. With increasing flexibility in work life, many employees experience job insecurity – they perceive that the future of their jobs is uncertain. However, job insecurity is not just an individual experience; employees can perceive that there is a climate of job insecurity at their workplace as well, as people collectively worry about their jobs. The overall aim of this thesis was to investigate the job insecurity climate construct and how it relates to work- and health-related outcomes and to individual job insecurity. Three empirical studies were conducted to investigate this aim. Study I investigated the dimensionality of the job insecurity construct by developing and testing a measure of job insecurity climate − conceptualized as the individual’s perception of the job insecurity climate at work − in a sample of employees working in Sweden. The results indicated that individual job insecurity and job insecurity climate are separate but related constructs and that job insecurity climate was related to work- and health-related outcomes. Study II examined the effects of individual job insecurity and job insecurity climate on work- and health-related outcomes in a sample of employees working in a private sector company in Sweden. The results showed that perceiving higher levels of job insecurity climate than others in the workgroup was associated with poorer self-rated health and higher levels of burnout. Study III tested the relationship between individual job insecurity and job insecurity climate in a sample of Flemish employees. The results indicated that individual job insecurity is contagious, as individual job insecurity predicted perceptions of job insecurity climate six months later. In conclusion, by focusing on perceptions of the job insecurity climate, the present thesis introduces a new approach to job insecurity climate research, showing that employees can perceive a climate of job insecurity in addition to their own individual job insecurity and, also, that this perception of the job insecurity climate at work has negative consequences for individuals and organizations. / <p>At the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 2: Manuscript. Paper 3: Manuscript.</p>

My thesis deals with the topic of burning out of Department of non-insurance social benefits (DNSB) Labor Office workers in the Czech Republic. We can find a lot of definitions of Burn-out Syndrome in the literature. Some of them are focused on the emotional, mental or physical exhaustion, others interpret the syndrome as a process with certain development. Nevertheless, Burn-out Syndrome is a pack of symptoms including lack of zest and energy, life joy and mainly enthusiasm needed for work. There are various functions of the Labor office CZ: to fulfill tasks in the employment area, protection of employees in case of employer´s insolvency and first of all, to administrate, decide and pay non-insurance social benefits. Social workers and referees who work in DNSB are extremely endangered with Burn-out Syndrome because of their specific work. Their job requires daily talks with clients who do not have only one but various problems and who are unable to solve them by themselves. And these clients usually expect more service than the office workers can provide. The aim of my thesis is to describe the Burn-out Syndrome issue and its appearance in the group of the social workers and referees of the DNSB Labor Office CZ. Partial aim of my thesis is to find out if the workers have information how to precede it and to compare the difference between small and big town workers. Other partial aim is to find out if the workers subjectively suffer exhaustion. Three hypotheses were set up. Workers of DNSB in bigger towns feel subjectively more exhausted than those in smaller ones. Social workers have more information how to precede it than referees. Referees feel subjectively more exhausted than social workers. Flowingly there is a survey question: what do the workers in the DNSB Labor Office CZ know about Burn-out Syndrome? A quantity strategy of survey was set up via using questionnaire. There were 148 DNSB workers in the survey sample who filled in completely and correctly the questionnaire. As a complement strategy a quality data survey was used via questioning method, semi-structured interview. 8 workers from total 249 workers were chosen by random choice to be interviewed - this group forms the second survey sample. Results of quantity survey are presented with descriptive statistics using graphs and charts. The set up hypotheses were tested with statistic method of Chi-squared test. The results show that DNSB workers in bigger cities do not feel more exhausted than those in smaller ones. Social workers of DNSB have more information how to precede it than referees. Referees do not feel more exhausted than social workers of DNSB. For analysis of quality survey, a hand written record was chosen. There were identified three clusters: awareness about Burn-out Syndrome, perception of clients and personal feelings. The results of quality part show that DNSB workers have information about the Syndrome, but the information is incomplete - sometimes even confusing in the sense of focusing on the unimportant peculiarities instead of core causes. Regarding individual answers, most of the workers see the clients and work with the clients as something unpleasant, not entertaining. Moreover, we can imply from the survey a necessity of specialized training about Burn-out Syndrome focused on the workers. Practical anticipated benefit of the thesis is providing study materials to the students of the Health and Social Faculty of the Southern Bohemian University in České Budějovice and providing the materials to the Labor Office CZ.

Les applications futures de la robotique, en particulier pour des robots de service à la personne, exigeront des capacités d’adaptation continue à l'environnement, et notamment la capacité à reconnaître des nouveaux objets et apprendre des nouveaux mots via l'interaction avec les humains. Bien qu'ayant fait d'énormes progrès en utilisant l'apprentissage automatique, les méthodes actuelles de vision par ordinateur pour la détection et la représentation des objets reposent fortement sur de très bonnes bases de données d’entrainement et des supervisions d'apprentissage idéales. En revanche, les enfants de deux ans ont une capacité impressionnante à apprendre à reconnaître des nouveaux objets et en même temps d'apprendre les noms des objets lors de l'interaction avec les adultes et sans supervision précise. Par conséquent, suivant l'approche de le robotique développementale, nous développons dans la thèse des approches d'apprentissage pour les objets, en associant leurs noms et leurs caractéristiques correspondantes, inspirées par les capacités des enfants, en particulier l'interaction ambiguë avec l’homme en s’inspirant de l'interaction qui a lieu entre les enfants et les parents.L'idée générale est d’utiliser l'apprentissage cross-situationnel (cherchant les points communs entre différentes présentations d’un objet ou d’une caractéristique) et la découverte de concepts multi-modaux basée sur deux approches de découverte de thèmes latents: la Factorisation en Natrices Non-Négatives (NMF) et l'Allocation de Dirichlet latente (LDA). Sur la base de descripteurs de vision et des entrées audio / vocale, les approches proposées vont découvrir les régularités sous-jacentes dans le flux de données brutes afin de parvenir à produire des ensembles de mots et leur signification visuelle associée (p.ex le nom d’un objet et sa forme, ou un adjectif de couleur et sa correspondance dans les images). Nous avons développé une approche complète basée sur ces algorithmes et comparé leur comportements face à deux sources d'incertitudes: ambiguïtés de références, dans des situations où plusieurs mots sont donnés qui décrivent des caractéristiques d'objets multiples; et les ambiguïtés linguistiques, dans des situations où les mots-clés que nous avons l'intention d'apprendre sont intégrés dans des phrases complètes. Cette thèse souligne les solutions algorithmiques requises pour pouvoir effectuer un apprentissage efficace de ces associations de mot-référent à partir de données acquises dans une configuration d'acquisition simplifiée mais réaliste qui a permis d'effectuer des simulations étendues et des expériences préliminaires dans des vraies interactions homme-robot. Nous avons également apporté des solutions pour l'estimation automatique du nombre de thèmes pour les NMF et LDA.Nous avons finalement proposé deux stratégies d'apprentissage actives: la Sélection par l'Erreur de Reconstruction Maximale (MRES) et l'Exploration Basée sur la Confiance (CBE), afin d'améliorer la qualité et la vitesse de l'apprentissage incrémental en laissant les algorithmes choisir les échantillons d'apprentissage suivants. Nous avons comparé les comportements produits par ces algorithmes et montré leurs points communs et leurs différences avec ceux des humains dans des situations d'apprentissage similaires. / Future applications of robotics, especially personal service robots, will require continuous adaptability to the environment, and particularly the ability to recognize new objects and learn new words through interaction with humans. Though having made tremendous progress by using machine learning, current computational models for object detection and representation still rely heavily on good training data and ideal learning supervision. In contrast, two year old children have an impressive ability to learn to recognize new objects and at the same time to learn the object names during interaction with adults and without precise supervision. Therefore, following the developmental robotics approach, we develop in the thesis learning approaches for objects, associating their names and corresponding features, inspired by the infants' capabilities, in particular, the ambiguous interaction with humans, inspired by the interaction that occurs between children and parents.The general idea is to use cross-situational learning (finding the common points between different presentations of an object or a feature) and to implement multi-modal concept discovery based on two latent topic discovery approaches : Non Negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) and Latent Dirichlet Association (LDA). Based on vision descriptors and sound/voice inputs, the proposed approaches will find the underlying regularities in the raw dataflow to produce sets of words and their associated visual meanings (eg. the name of an object and its shape, or a color adjective and its correspondence in images). We developed a complete approach based on these algorithms and compared their behavior in front of two sources of uncertainties: referential ambiguities, in situations where multiple words are given that describe multiple objects features; and linguistic ambiguities, in situations where keywords we intend to learn are merged in complete sentences. This thesis highlights the algorithmic solutions required to be able to perform efficient learning of these word-referent associations from data acquired in a simplified but realistic acquisition setup that made it possible to perform extensive simulations and preliminary experiments in real human-robot interactions. We also gave solutions for the automatic estimation of the number of topics for both NMF and LDA.We finally proposed two active learning strategies, Maximum Reconstruction Error Based Selection (MRES) and Confidence Based Exploration (CBE), to improve the quality and speed of incremental learning by letting the algorithms choose the next learning samples. We compared the behaviors produced by these algorithms and show their common points and differences with those of humans in similar learning situations.

Le poète européen Guillermo Carnero, dit ‘novísimo’, publie ses premiers poèmes dans l’Espagne du franquisme tardif des années 70 du siècle dernier et se fait alors connaître du grand public par son oeuvre phare Dibujo de la muerte. Auteur de onze livres, il poursuit l’élaboration de son oeuvres piralaire jusqu’au dernier recueil en date, Carta florentina, publié en 2018, tout en conduisant une carrière universitaire en tant que professeur de littérature à l’université d’Alicante. Souffrant d’une réception souvent figée par les figures de réception imposées de l’historiographie littéraire, la signifiance de cette oeuvre, réputée difficile, ne fut que trop rarement mise en évidence malgré la parution d’essais européens. Or, le poète, lecteur et érudit cosmopolite amoureux des arts et des cultures exprime dans sa poésie une intime relation au monde grâce à une relation dialogique avec le référent culturel, qui y occupe une place centrale en tant qu’axe fondateur autour duquel s’articulent l’expression de l’émotion poétique et la réflexion sur la création. L’hybridité constitutive du tissage de l’insaisissable ordonné de cette oeuvre poétique induit chez le lecteur une réception engagée et une itinérance au sein des univers culturels propres à l’auteur. Ainsi se met en oeuvre la médiation humaniste entre le poète et son lecteur grâce à la prégnance du référent culturel mobilisé pour dire l’intime d’un douloureux rapport au monde. Cette médiation humaniste facteur de connaissance de soiest ici conduite hors de toute recherche d’intertextualité mais laisse place à l’écriture de l’émotion à l’oeuvre, saisie dans l’instantanéité des ambivalences d’une insaisissable voix poématique / The European poet Guillermo Carnero, known as 'novísimo', published his first poems in late Franco's Spain in the 1970s and became known to the general public with his flagship work Dibujode la muerte. Author of eleven books, he continues the development of his spiral work until the latest collection, Carta florentina, published in 2018, while conducting an academic career as a professor of literature at the University of Alicante. Suffering from a reception often frozen by the imposed reception figures of literary historiography, the significance of this work, reputed difficult, was only too rarely highlighted despite the publication of European essays. The poet, reader and cosmopolitan scholar inlove with the arts and cultures, expresses in his poetry an intimate relationship with the world through a dialogical relationship with the cultural referent, which occupies a central place there as a founding axis around which are articulated the expression of poetic emotion and reflection on creation. The hybridity that constitutes the weaving of the elusive order of this poetic work induces in the reader a committed reception and a roaming within the author's own cultural universes. Thus the humanist mediation between the poet and his reader is implemented thanks to the influence of the cultural referentmobilized to express the intimacy of a painful relationship with the world. This humanistic mediation, a factor of self-knowledge, is conducted here without any search for intertextuality but leaves room for the writing of emotion at work, captured in the instantaneity of the ambivalences of an elusive poematic voice.

The aim of the diploma thesis is to describe the basic characteristics and analysis of the information profession of the Czech Republic in the sphere of state administration. Some space of the work is devoted to the characteristics of public and state administration. The diploma thesis emphasizes the institutions of state administration and their division. The following chapter deals with information institutions and information folders in the state administration and their categorization. The core of the thesis is the definition of the concept of an information specialist. The final chapter is devoted to the possibilities of graduates in the field of Information Studies and Librarianship in Public and State Administration and the exemplary position of a public administration information systems officer based on the analysis of advertised job offers.

Le groupe socioprofessionnel des agriculteurs a connu depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale un changement socio-économique important. Le point de départ de cette thèse – à l’articulation des démarches hypothético-déductive et empirico-inductive – est de se demander s’il ne reste pas des traces, plus ou moins nettes, de la culture paysanne dans la configuration des valeurs du monde agricole contemporain. Peut-on parler de la fin de la culture paysanne comme certains chercheurs parlent de la fin de la classe ouvrière ? L’enquête de terrain se fonde sur l’approche qualitative de données recueillies par entretiens semi-directifs et libres ainsi que par des observations directes et participantes et des films sociologiques. Leur analyse a reposé sur l’élaboration, au préalable, d’un référent culturel commun construit à partir d’un syncrétisme des valeurs anciennes et nouvelles, permettant de construire le référent culturel « agripaysan » et confirmant ainsi l’hypothèse d’un syncrétisme des valeurs. A l’intérieur du référent culturel commun au corpus étudié, les valeurs ont été caractérisées en trois groupes : les « valeurs identitaires et distinctives », les « valeurs nécessaires » et les « valeurs extraprofessionnelles ». L’analyse des données a également mis en évidence une appropriation différenciée du référent culturel « agripaysan » qui est explicitée à l’aide d’une typologie en trois idéaux-types : paysan-agriculteur, chef d’entreprise-paysan et agri-manager. Plus largement, cette thèse interroge la culture en tant que mode de vie d’un groupe et s’inscrit, à la fois, dans la sociologie des modes de vie et dans la sociologie du travail, sans oublier la sociologie rurale. / The Farmers socioprofessional group has gone through a significant socio-economical change since the Second World War. The starting point of this thesis – in the hinge of an hypothetical-deductive and empirical-inductive approach – is to wonder whether or not some more or less distinct traces of the peasant culture romain in the layout of the contemporary agricultural world values. Shall we declare the end of the peasant culture just like some researchers do about the end of the warking class ? The field survey is based on a qualitative approach of the data gathered via partially guided and free interviews as well as direct and participating observations along with sociological films. Their analysis was beforehand based on the drafting of a common, cultural referent created from the syncretism (merge) of the old and new values, allowing to build the cultural referend « farmo-peasant » and therefore confirming the theory of a syncretism of the values. The values within this cultural referent similar to the studied corpus have been characterized into three groups : the « distinctive and identity values », the « necessary values » and the « extraprofessional values ». The analysis of the data also highlighted a differentiated appropriation of the cultural referent « farmo-peasant » clarified thanks to its classification into three ideal models : peasant-cultivator, company manager-peasant and farmer-owner. Widely, this thesis examines the culture as a way of life for a group which at the same time falls in with the sociology of the ways of life, the work sociology and without forgetting the rural sociology.