#@structural-functionalism

[Don’t be too put off by the title of this post. It looks highfalutin. It may be, but the text isn’t.] It’s a truism to say that our lives are finite and that we go through stages of development and change. But, it seems, sometimes we need to be reminded of obvious but possibly unwelcome realities. I’m sure we all understand that we follow a path of change starting at birth and ending at death.…