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