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Mapping social cohesion: the Scanlon Foundation surveys 2015
No full textProvides a series of detailed surveys on social cohesion, immigration and population issues.
This report presents the findings of the eighth Scanlon Foundation Mapping Social Cohesion national survey, conducted in June-July 2015. The report builds on the knowledge gained through the seven earlier Scanlon Foundation national surveys (2007, 2009-2014) which provide, for the first time in Australian social research, a series of detailed surveys on social cohesion, immigration and population issues.
Together with Scanlon Foundation local area and sub-group surveys, fifteen surveys with over 25,000 respondents have been conducted since 2007. The project also tracks the findings of other Australian and international surveys on population and social cohesion issues.
Key findings
The Scanlon-Monash Index of Social Cohesion (SMI) has moved in the strongest positive direction since the Index was established in 2007, although it is still at a relatively low level.
The Scanlon Foundation survey asks respondents for their view of \u27the most important issue facing Australia today\u27; change has occurred in the ranking of national security and social issues, which are now both second ranked (the economy remains first).
Concern over immigration remains at the lowest level recorded by the Scanlon Foundation surveys; attitudes towards asylum seekers arriving by boat are also little changed since 2014.
The high level of support for the proposition that \u27multiculturalism has been good for Australia\u27 has been maintained.
There are significant differences in attitudes of young adults, the middle-aged and older Australians, evident in response to questions on national identity and cultural diversity.
Significant difference is also evident across Australia’s regions. There is lower support outside capital cities for immigration, resettlement opportunities for asylum seekers and cultural maintenance. Difference in attitude is also evident in comparison of Australia’s major cities
Multiculturalism: discussion paper
No full textSets out to explore and reflect on the reasons why Australian multiculturalism has succeeded.
Introduction
Multiculturalism in Australia is unquestionably a success story.
This sentiment has been echoed by many including Race Discrimination Commissioner, Tim Soutphommasane, who in 2013 said that there was strong agreement with the notion that we should be emphatically proud of our achievements as a multicultural society. Rupert Murdoch has made observations of Australia as being ‘a great model for the world – a prosperous, multicultural society of people living together in peace and freedom’.
Today, Australia’s diverse culture is one of our most defining characteristics. In fact, we now have the largest overseas-born population of all large OECD nations, with nearly half of our population either born overseas, or with one or both parents born overseas.
Since 2007, the Scanlon Foundation’s Mapping Social Cohesion Research series has recorded and analysed public attitudes to issues relating to the impact that our broad immigration program has made on Australian society, and our social cohesion.
Over the course of the ten years since this research began, acceptance of multiculturalism has been consistently high. The 2015 Mapping Social Cohesion Research found that 86% of Australians either agree or strongly agree that multiculturalism has been good for Australia, and this view has remained constant over the last three surveys.
This discussion paper sets out to explore the complexities beneath this support, and reflect on why Australian multiculturalism has succeeded.
What exactly is multiculturalism as practiced in Australia? Is it a concrete concept of different cultures and backgrounds living together cohesively, or simply a way of describing our diverse society? And who is responsible for making multiculturalism a success – should new migrants adapt to fit Australia, or vice versa?
These questions are vital for all Australians, old and new, to consider at a time of great global change, and when the European experience and attitudes towards integration of migrants has become so widely discussed in the media
Series 5: Correspondence: January - May, 1990
No full textA resume submitted to the Texas Human Rights Foundation from an Andrew B. Scanlon, at 4418 Travis #221 Dallas, Texas, 75205
Recommended from our members
Series 5: Correspondence: January - May, 1990
No full textResume for Andy Scanlon
Series 5: Correspondence: January - May, 1990
No full textA letter from Andrew (Andy) B. Scanlon to the Texas Human Rights Foundation, applying to the position of Director of Development and Administration. Attached to his letter is his resume
Mapping social cohesion: 2009 Scanlon Foundation report
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Australia prides itself on being a multicultural society. We are mostly a society of immigrant families. With this in mind The Scanlon Foundation commissioned a report Mapping Social Cohesion 2009.
This was the second public Scanlon survey exploring attitudes to immigration; following one in 2007. It found that social cohesion operates not at the national level, but at the community level. This is where the lives of people from different backgrounds and cultures are made.
Grattan Institute hosted a seminar presented by Professor Andrew Markus who talked about the report’s findings. The discussion focused on contemporary immigration and immigrant’s experiences of connectedness, social justice, sense of belonging and worth
Mapping Social Cohesion Survey, 2023
No full textThe Scanlon Foundation Research Institute’s Mapping Social Cohesion study provides a series of detailed surveys on social cohesion, immigration and other topical social issues in Australia. The surveys provide a key source of information to understand patterns and change in the perceptions, attitudes and experiences of Australians across society and within social and demographic groups. The 2023 survey is the seventeenth national survey that the Scanlon Foundation has conducted since 2007. The survey is administered on the Social Research Centre’s Life In AustraliaTM (LinA) panel, Australia’s first and only national probability-based online panel. The 2023 survey employed a questionnaire comprising over 100 substantive and demographic questions in ten modules. The sample included 7,454 respondents
Mapping social cohesion 2013
No full textExecutive summary This report presents the findings of the sixth Scanlon Foundation Mapping Social Cohesion national survey, conducted in July 2013. The report builds on the knowledge gained through the five earlier Scanlon Foundation national surveys (2007, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012) which provide, for the first time in Australian social research, a series of detailed surveys on social cohesion, immigration and population issues. Each of the previous five national surveys was completed by 2000 respondents, a total of 10,000, with an additional 5,300 respondents who completed the 2007, 2009 and 2012 local surveys.Several changes were made in the conduct of the 2013 survey. For the first time, the national survey used a dual-frame sample methodology comprising both randomly generated (RDD) landline telephone numbers and randomly generated mobile phone numbers. This meant that, in keeping with contemporary best practice, the survey included the views of the estimated 19% of adults who now live in households without a landline telephone connection.In addition to the national survey, additional surveys were conducted in 2013. First, a series of locality based surveys: in areas of high immigrant concentration (in Brisbane and Perth); in regional centres impacted by immigration (Shepparton and Murray Bridge); and in a region with little experience of recent immigration (Atherton Tableland in Queensland). The local area surveys were completed by 2,500 respondents. Second, an online survey of recent immigrant arrivals was completed by over 2,300 respondents.This report focuses on the findings of the Scanlon Foundation national survey, with a summary of key findings from the survey of recent arrivals. The discussion of the local surveys is limited to the provision of evidence on attitudes to multiculturalism. A full report on the local and recent arrivals surveys is planned for release in April 2014.A prime objective of the surveys has been to further understanding of the social impact of Australia’s increasingly diverse immigration program. In the 2013 national survey there were 18 questions concerned with immigration and cultural diversity, with scope to interpret findings in the context of a questionnaire comprising 65 questions
Mapping Social Cohesion Survey, 2020
No full textThe Scanlon Foundation Research Institute’s Mapping Social Cohesion study provides a series of detailed surveys on social cohesion, immigration and other topical social issues in Australia. The surveys provide a key source of information to understand patterns and change in the perceptions, attitudes and experiences of Australians across society and within social and demographic groups. In 2020, in the context of the dislocation of Australian society by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Scanlon
Foundation conducted two national surveys, in July and
November, on the Life in Australia™ panel. The July survey
employed a questionnaire comprising 127 substantive
and 21 demographic questions in nine modules. In
November, key issues were re-examined in a shorter
version of the survey, 62 substantive questions and the
full demographic (3,090 respondents in July, 2,793 in November)
On the Scanlon Plan and Servant-Leadership
No full textFor 75 years, Joe Scanlon, the Scanlon Plan, and Scanlon-led companies had a robust run in the world of business, aided by the Scanlon Leadership Network. Over time, the number of Scanlon companies declined, and in 2013 the Scanlon Leadership Network, Foundation, and Consultancy ceased to exist. And for the past 53 years, servant-leadership has been growing in practice and influence around the world. This article in The International Journal of Servant-Leadership is adapted from a book that we created and published in 2008 titled, Scanlon EPIC Leadership, published by the Scanlon Foundation. Sections of the paper include an overview of Scanlon thought, as well as servant-leadership; reflections on the significance of Scanlon by twenty leadership and business authors; commentary on Joe Scanlon by Warren Bennis; an analysis of the history of Scanlon practices by organizations, written by Paul W. Davis and Larry C. Spears; an Afterword by Max DePree; and, closing thoughts on the end of Scanlon companies after 75 years of practice. Joe Scanlon, the originator of what came to be called the Scanlon Plan, and Robert K. Greenleaf who coined the term “servant-leader” have each had a profound influence on leadership and management practices. What was once radical ideas have entered the mainstream. The following essay will delve into the ongoing impact of Scanlon thought through employee involvement, teams, labor-management cooperation, gainsharing, goal-sharing, profit-sharing, suggestion systems, open-book management, lean techniques, and Theory Y management; and also, how servant-leadership continues to shape our understanding of what it means to serve first, and then to lead
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