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

正如官僚主义仪式主义和异化中看到的，理性系统往往不合理的、非个人化的。

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

默顿称之为仪式主义，这一种对规则的深深 devotion，仅仅因为它就规则。 注：这里的 " devotion" 保持不变，因为它上下文中指的“执着”或“忠诚”，而不翻译成中文的习惯用语或俚语。但如果更自然的表达，可以将其翻译为“执着”或“忠诚”。

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

而这种对规则的重视导致了另一种低效率：官僚主义仪式主义。

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的一个原因她所说的仪式主义。