criticism

• Archer

  Giddens underestimates the capacity of societal structures to resist change

  > poor may wish to abolish poverty but don't have power to do so
• example of Archers criticism


  -the law is part of the structure of society & constrains behaviour

  -by conforming to the law, people allow it to continue existing

  -people may decide some laws are outdated/irrelevant & choose to break them

  -eventually those laws must be abandoned/modified, or the legal system will no longer be effective