Abstract: Chinese academic circle has always held prejudice of elitism against the elucidation of value function in mass culture . Such a prejudice is specificly manifested in three aspects:who speaks,what to say, how to say. The duality of the value function in mass culture refers to the dual contradictory factors of kind and evil,advantage and disadvantage that exist simultanneously in mass culture. The theoretical discourse in moral idealism and historicism holds unitary understanding of its value function, whi...