Sociological theory can be applied in sports to illuminate the
relationship between sports and society. This include shedding light on the
governance of sport organizations, the priorities behind allocation of state
and private funding to sport as well as the environmental impact of sports and
its contribution to urban inequality, especially via mega-events. Sociology can
help guide sports organizations and policy makers in shunning the shallow obsession
with effect and neglect of cause that inexorably impede its development as a
progressive social institution
William Penn ( (O.S. 14 October 1644) 24 October 1644 – 30 July 1718) was an English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North American colony and the future Commonwealth ofPennsylvania.