Complex sentence: Robert Merton was a functionalist and he fundamentally agreed with Parsons theory, however he acknowledged that it was problematic, believing that it was too generalised (Holmwood, 2005:100).
Split into simpler sentences: Robert Merton was a functionalist and he fundamentally agreed with Parsons theory. However, he acknowledged that it was problematic, believing that it was too generalised (Holmwood, 2005:100).