Original sentence: But Bourdieu's work attempts to reconcile the paradoxical dichotomy of structure and agency; he never claimed to have done so entirely, but defined a new approach.In the conservative circles of Cambridge and especially Oxford, his work was often dismissed:.It has been claimed that Bourdieu's theory, and in particular his notion of habitus, is entirely deterministic, leaving no place for individual agency or even individual consciousness
Edited sentence: In the conservative circles of Cambridge and especially Oxford, original French work of the 1960s and 1970s was routinely dismissed, for instance by the Oxford fellow John Goldthorpe:.It has been opined, incorrectly, that Bourdieu's theory, and in particular his notion of habitus, is entirely deterministic, leaving no place for individual agency or even individual consciousness.The point of Bourdieu's work was to strive to reconcile the paradoxical dichotomy of structure and agency; he never claimed to have done so entirely, but forged a new language for others to carry on the struggle