Discourses on gender between different cultures. Women role in family and society

The research presented in this paper, aims to analyse the development of cultural and social Identities according to general changes in the family structure of Italians migrated to the United States. In a more specific perspective the research topic is focused on the role and the status of women in family as well as in public and work contexts and the way these cultural positioning evolved during the last fifty years. Three Identity constructs have been isolated in order to analyse the interactions between the participants of a situated context and between them and their social and physical environment. The theoretical and methodological background is focused on the Social structure, in order to describe family organisation-systems through the Field-Theory and the Linguistic practises, representing the executive communication process throughout semantic and gestural activities. These observations have been analysed than according to wider cultural and ideological value-systems. The results show how social, cultural as well as gender Identities are strictly correlated to the symbolical and situational variables constituting a determinate context. The conversational practices represent the executive instrument, which mediates all interactive practices amongst social actors joining a same symbolical and material situation. The family, according to this perspective, represents not only a micro-mirror of a certain social reality but even more an universal expedient, something in common to all cultures. Studying the constitutional aspects of intrafamily interactions, it would be possible to individuate the interpersonal organisation processes affine to the lager cultural and social frame.