The essay,from the perspective of sociology and socio-psychology,makes an attributive survey of Reality TV that has appeared in recent two years.The topic of the essay is that why the Chinese Reality TV can exist and develop quickly. From the sociological level,the essay points that the superfical causes rely on the popularity of popular culture,the push of public media and the emergence of the fans community.And the deeper causes depend on the economic development of China and trend of modemization.From the socio-psychological level,the essay shows that the superficial cause lies in the direct obtaining of psychological sensation of pleasure.And the deeper cause gose to the relevant phychological system of fashion as well as the psychological thirst for caraival.Next,we use the Kelley'cube theory to analyse the topic of the essey from three levels :mass popular,fans and rumor. At the base of the analysis above,the essay gets the conclusion that popular culture is the fundamental nature of Reality TV,and points out the inevitability and contingency of the emergence of it.
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