The Concealed Conditions of a Field

Legitimization and universalization of rules and regularities of a particular field are the products of the social or historical conditions which produce it. These conditions lead to universalization based on who had access to the required disposition of a field. Here take the example of aesthetic field as a field of pure pleasure. The privileged who had access to the condition of developing this taste legitimize the rule whereas for those who do not have such access accept it as natural/doxa. 

Pure pleasure in aesthetics should be for everyone, however the privilege has only access to the conditions in which it is constituted. How? First of all, the constitution of pure taste goes through a long process in which it evolves as an autonomous field (free from political and economic constraints) and sets its own regularities. Secondly, the condition or a certain position in the social world can only give access to the pure aesthetic pleasure. Social world like schooling and or upbringing, gives or restrains the opportunity not only to form the disposition but to exercise it through practice. Thus schooling and upbringing provide access to some for developing the aesthetic disposition while denying access to others. 

Thus aesthetic pleasure is the product of particular conditions in which only the privileged have access to the disposition. The privilege group legitimize it and universalizes it. What happens to the common men then? The common men accept it as natural or universal. Since this legitimization is in such a concealed way with forgotten historical conditions and the omission of the social conditions to which it is the product, that the norm of all social practices is set up which has very little chance of being contested. Those who are excluded from or have no access to the social conditions, often internalize the prevailing law constituted as a universal norms.