As we saw with bureaucratic ritualism and alienation, rational systems are often unreasonable, impersonal.

正如我们在官僚主义式主义和异化中看到，理性系统往往不合理、非个人化。

Merton called this ritualism, a deep devotion to the rules because they are the rules.

默顿称式主义，这一种对规 devotion，仅仅因它们就规。 注：这里 " devotion" 保持不变，因它在上下文中指“执着”或“忠诚”，而不需要翻译成中文习惯用语或俚语。但如果需要更自然表达，可以将其翻译“执着”或“忠诚”。

And that focus on rules leads to another kind of inefficiency: bureaucratic ritualism.

而这种对规重视导致了另一种低效率：官僚主义式主义。

One thing that she points to as a driving force of the failure for there to be improvement in this area is what she calls ritualism.

她指出，导致这一领域改进失败一个原因她所说式主义。