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an instrument that he called thermoscope. This instrument consists of a glass capillary that is U-shaped. At both ends of the capillary, hollow spheres are attached. These spheres are blackened and made [...] main consid- erations were the geometrical arrangement of the heat absorber and the mirror. The best shape for the mirror was an open-ended cone, with the cu- rious mathematical name of “frustocone,” that

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• Mouchot and the solar cooker

any further separated into smaller parts. These atoms were distinguished from each other by their shape and size. Ac- cording to Democritus, these atoms move in the empty space and collide with each other

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• Dalton and the atoms

an instrument that he called thermoscope. This instrument consists of a glass capillary that is U-shaped. At both ends of the capillary, hollow spheres are attached. These spheres are blackened and made

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• Scientific Partnership; James Prescott Joule, William Thomson, and the mechanical equivalent of heat.

meaning and purpose between fragmented events and experiences. Experiences are meaningful parts of shaping humans’ stories about themselves (Johansen, 2012; McAdams, 1996) with re- gard to the social context [...] and they appear in various forms in relation to the process of Euro- pean integration, thereby shaping and permeating countless dimensions of social life (for an overview of European narratives and c [...] Radonić, 2017; Van Weyenberg, 2019) as well as monuments and buildings (Perchoc, 2017). Narra- tives shape organizations (Lueg, 2018) and policies (e.g. Maricut, 2017) and constitute, more generally, the

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• Culture, Practice and Europeanization

49) Thus, discourses are not merely descriptive of meanings in society; they are performative, shaping realities. Moreover, discourses are not value-neutral; instead, they represent cul- tural forms of [...] constructs knowledge about groups and group memberships that individuals may identify with or re- ject, shaping their “social identity” as defined by social identity theory (Tajfel & Turner, 1986, 69). For Hall [...] Barth, 1969; Krossa, 2016) and of common culture and history (e.g. Assmann & Czaplicka, 1995) for shaping “identities”. Exemplifying this approach, using Critical Dis- course Analysis, Wodak et al. (2009

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• Culture, Practice and Europeanization

paragraph, we explain and describe the different media actors’ roles and how they can contribute to shaping the EU narratives within the contemporary media system. 3. The hybrid media system and the relationship [...] (re)produced by media are interpreted as a social practice that constructs meaning assuming the power to shape socio-political orientations (Fairclough, et al., 2011). CDA is characterised by the common interests [...] the understanding of how ‘topoi’ and legitima- tion strategies served for and/or contributed to shaping the framework of Europe- discourses and each specific form of discussion (Wodak & Weiss, 2005). Finally

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• Culture, Practice and Europeanization

necessarily dichotomous entities”; they may be running against the dominant stories, but they are also shaped by them. Studies of narratives have been associated mainly with discourse analysis in the field of [...] Slovenia regarding how to treat immigrants throughout the transition (Vidmar Horvat, 2009) and has shaped the solidarity discourse in recent years (Vidmar Horvat, 2012). At the micro level, it may seem that

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• Culture, Practice and Europeanization

predetermined slogan or a campaign messaging, and not an interrogation of the structural conditions that shape one’s life story” (Fernandes, 2017, 6). The EU-funded institutions have no interest in pre- senting [...] concern as the measures happen in a considerable geographical distance. This helps poli- ticians to shape and channel domestic social energies with regard to migration. A systematic strategy within the framework

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clear how the proposed isomorphism works. It is a simple feedback effect: ideas shape social relations, and social relations shape ideas. The inter- esting theoretical issue is how this feedback unfolds in [...] rela- tions therefore has to be perceived as two-sided: “[…] the network structure linking a peo- ple shapes the construction of the identity of that network which then is used to reproduce this network structure [...] networks (or a shared communicative space, cf. Eder, 2007b, 2011, 44) and b) social relations are shaped by symbolic processes, maybe you could still elaborate a bit on how exactly you perceive this re

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• Culture, Practice and Europeanization

motives. Daniel Maul shows how this context of competition between power and influence has always shaped the struggle to define what the ILO is and what purposes it should serve. These questions affected [...] into the ILO’s field of expertise (269-72). Maul clearly shows how the history of the ILO has been shaped by dichotomies: industrialized and developing countries had different conceptions, economies were

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• Culture, Practice and Europeanization