Social Change and Direction Actions

I have been reading and studying a lot of different works from different sociologists on the topic of social change. I’m a little confused on what the message of the readings are and wanted to try and gain a clearer understanding.

My main question is; from the standpoint of social change, what are the advantages and limits of resorting to direct action (sit-ins, occupations, demonstrations, strikes, etc.)?

What are some specific examples of this from American politics and society?

What are some of the sociological perspectives covered by these readings that relates to this idea?

Any specific examples and quotes would be very helpful! The readings I am trying to understand are listed below:

- Piven, Frances Fox and Richard A. Cloward. 2000. Why Americans still don’t Vote. Boston: Beacon Press. Pp. 23-71, 108-36.
- Lipset, Seymour Martin. 1963. The First New Nation: the United States in Historical and Comparative Perspective. New York: Basic Books. Pp. 101-139, 207-247.
- Moore, Barrington, Jr. 1966. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World. Boston: Beacon Press. Pp. 413-432.
- de Leon, Cedric. 2008. “‘No Bourgeois Mass Party, No Democracy’: The Missing Link in Barrington Moore’s American Civil War.” Political Power and Social Theory 19: 39-82.
- Gitlin, Todd. 2003. The Whole World Is Watching: Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left. Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 146-246.

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