The Study Of Masculinity’s Construction In Parent-child Reality Show

Dad, where are we going, a successful reality TV show between parent and child, causes a hot debate on the role of males in families and increasingly number of females and males accept the male image in the reality TV show. It is not a causal cultural phenomenon. In general, there is a common characteristic among this male image-backing family life or in the situation of "waiting for serving families".In the eastern culture, as well as, western culture, people reach a consensus on traditional Masculinities:strong, brave, aggressive, independent and the space of their activities and "self achievement" is society. While, the standard of a woman is to be "a understanding wife and kind mother", excellent and prudent women are well accepted by the society, which means women’s activity space is family that is excluded by the society.In addition, the Dad, where are we going intensively presents the role a man played in a family; however, it is not common in reality. Both the women’s expectation of men’s backing home and the worries about child education and the imbalance standard of male quality are presented in that TV show. It is worthy mentioning that Dad, where are we going is impacted by the logic of consumption and a fantastic-like expectation of women. The point from the social gender theory and Canal’s masculinity theory perceived that male quality is not singular and it is built by social gender rather than biological gender.Actually, Dad, where are we going really boom a "good dad" hot, so the male quality is diversified, complex and nurtured and various male qualities will be developed in different stages of the society. For example, the age of cold weapons stressed on strong body, while, the male were not focused on their bodies due to the firearms were used in the age of firearm. Before the industrial revolution, men need skills and functions of bodies to finish the work. However, since the industrial revolution people not stressed on strong body. The standard of male quality is different between east and west, owning to the eastern male quality always had feminine charm. China is in the process of transforming from the society of production to the society of consuming. People judge a man’s male quality by his ability to work, product and use skills, but now, by consuming. And of course, it will have some value’s interactions and disorders in this process. And to some extend, Dad, where are we going collected various factors that influenced male quality and constructed male quality.Standing at the characteristic of TV show, the context studied on the represents of the reality TV show— Dad, where are we going by using the combination of summarizing the studies of the characteristic of TV show and the theory of social gender and male quality.