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.
The sociologist Robert Merton proposed that social institutions such as education in schools have functions that are both manifest and latent. The manifest functions are the ones that society intends those institutions to have. The latent functions are the ones that are not intended, but which come about even so.