Shaping Technology / Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change Book

	Preface
	General Introduction	1
I	Do Technologies Have Trajectories?
	Introduction	17
1	The Life and Death of an Aircraft: A Network Analysis of Technical Change	21
2	What's in a Patent?	53
3	The Social Construction of Fluorescent Lighting, or How an Artifact Was Invented in Its Diffusion Stage	75
II	Strategies, Resources, and the Shaping of Technology
	Introduction	105
4	Controversy and Closure in Technological Change: Constructing "Steel"	109
5	Closing the Ranks: Definition and Stabilization of Radioactive Wastes in the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1945-1960	140
6	Artifacts and Frames of Meaning: Thomas A. Edison, His Managers, and the Cultural Construction of Motion Pictures	175
III	What Next? Technology, Theory, and Method
	Introduction	201
7	The De-Scription of Technical Objects	205
8	Where Are the Missing Masses? The Sociology of a Few Mundane Artifacts	225
9	A Summary of a Convenient Vocabulary for the Semiotics of Human and Nonhuman Assemblies	259
10	Technology, Testing, Text: Clinical Budgeting in the U.K. National Health Service	265
11	Postscript: Technology, Stability, and Social Theory	290
	References	309
	Contributors	327
	Index	331