Social Problems By Bryan Stevenson: An Analysis

Human agency is defined as “rather than passively accepting structural constraints, people cope with, adapt to, and change their social situations to meet their needs” (Eitzen et al. 108). This book showed that me any individual can create change if you are devoted to it. Bryan Stevenson came out of this rural segregated town in Delaware and was able to bring cases to the supreme court to fight for justice in our judicial system. Our book, Social Problems, tells us that racial stratification is a system of inequality in which better opportunities (occupation, income, education) are afforded to whites; we learned the racial problems have structural foundations and that human agency never disappears. However, I think with more people like Bryan