Sponsored Topics. Lexington is a village in Sanilac County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,104 at the 2000 census. The village is located within Lexington Township. As of the census of 2000, there were 1,104 people, 550 households, and 305 families residing in the village.
Bureaucratic Ritualism Bureaucratic ritualism signifies a preoccupation with rules and regulations to the point of thwarting an organization's goals. Bureaucratic Inertia Bureaucratic inertia refers to the tendency of bureaucratic organizations to perpetuate themselves. An example from the federal government is used to illustrate.
Robert Merton's theory, influenced by Emile Durkheim, alleging that person acquire desires for culturally approved goals to strive to achieve, but they adopt innovative sometimes deviant, means to achieve these goals, (e.g., somone may desire a nice home but lack or reject the institutionalized means to achieve this goal,) instead using bank robber, an innovative mean, to obtain money to realize the culturally approved goal.