Original sentence: The nature of Parsons' action theory reflects the implicit choices of his epistemology in such a way that it can be characterized as an attempt to play on the combined strenght of both positivism and hermeneutic types of sociological theories, while avoiding the reductionism of the full-fledged adoption of one of the two sides.We will find that Parsons already in his college student term-papers at Amherst criticized approaches, which tried to reduce human life to psychological, biological or materialist forces -- what was essential in human life, Parsons maintained, was the way the factor of culture was codified
Edited sentence: The nature of Parsons' action theory reflects the implicit choices of his epistemology in such a way that it can be characterized as an attempt to play on the combined strength of both positivism and hermeneutic types of sociological theories, while avoiding the reductionism of the full-fledged adoption of one of the two sides.We will find that Parsons already in his college student term-papers at Amherst criticized approaches, which tried to reduce human life to psychological, biological or materialist forces—what was essential in human life, Parsons maintained, was the way the factor of culture was codified