Marmara University Department of Economics
ECON7022
This MA course begins with an introduction to research ethics and an overview of fundamental scientific methods, and continues by equipping students with comprehensive analytical tools required in the social sciences.
Class Hours: FRI. 14.00 - 16.30
Class: K2.Z08
2025-2026 Weekly Schedule*
LECTURE 1 (Feb 20): Introduction
LECTURE 2 (Feb 27): Ethics in social sciences
LECTURE 3 (Mar 6): An Introduction to Statistical Inference
LECTURE 4 (Mar 13): Endogeneity Problem in Social Sciences
LECTURE 5 (Mar 20): Quantitative methods - Survey techniques
LECTURE 6 (Mar 27): Quantitative methods - Survey techniques (Chi-square test)
LECTURE 7 (Apr 3): research time
LECTURE 8 (Apr 10): midterm week
LECTURE 9 (Apr 17): Data analysis in R
LECTURE 10 (Apr 24): Visual analysis in R
LECTURE 11 (May 1): no class - holiday
LECTURE 12 (May 8): Introduction to Textual analysis
LECTURE 13 (May 15): Introduction to html coding
LECTURE 14 (May 22): Webscraping - Static websites
LECTURE 15 (May 29): Webscraping - Dynamic websites
LECTURE 16 (June 5): Further Topics in Textual analysis
LECTURE 17 (June 12): Discussion
*There may be changes throughout the semester
Some Reading List:
EU Commission - Ethics in Social Science and Humanities
Acharyya, R. & Bhattacharya, N. (2020). Research Methodology for Social Science. Taylor & Francis.
Bingham, A. J., Mitchell, R., & Carter, D. S. (2024). A practical guide to theoretical frameworks for social science research. Routledge.
The Ethics of Social Research