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Pierre Bourdieu. 1998. “Is a Disinterested Act Possible?” Pp. 75-91 in Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action. Stanford, CA: Stanford U. Press. Dominance is not solely a consequence of people’s economic activities. People may become dominant within any of society’s (bureaucratic, artistic, scientific, etc.) social fields. Yet each field comprises a game that they may or may not take seriously. For example, outsiders may be totally indifferent to a game despite possibly having extensive knowledge about it. At the other extreme, however, those born into a social field will tend to accept its mental structures as obvious and thus beyond question. Their interest in (i.e., their illusio within) the game is absolute. More importantly, the practical skills (or habitus) gained by those socialized into the field will increase the likelihood of their dominance within it. Actions taken on behalf of one’s social field (for example, legitimated with “business is business”) are not genuinely disinterested insofar as they were intended to gain symbolic capital for one’s “selfless” contributions to the field. If sociologists lack sufficiently disinterested habitus, they too may partake in such cynically disinterested acts—thereby promoting illusio rather than (in genuinely disinterested acts) analyzing social fields’ rationalized forms of domination.