Kędzia Piotr. Traditions of social prevention in the activities of the Polish sports organizations. Selected aspects. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2018;8(12):1052-1057. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3579562 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/7650 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part b item 1223 (26/01/2017). 1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eISSN 2391-8306 7 © The Author(s) 2018; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 09.12.2018. Revised: 22.12.2018. Accepted: 24.12.2018. Traditions of social prevention in the activities of the Polish sports organizations. Selected aspects Piotr Kędzia University of Lodz Faculty of Educational Sciences https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1708-5373 Abstract The analysis of the first Polish sports organizations indicate their multi-faceted contexts of social prevention. The most important of them can include: preventing factors that threaten health, the fight against illiteracy, social deviated prevention, prevention of violence and xenophobia stadiums and initiating preventive measures in defence of Poland. Preventive actions taken were aimed at not only securing proper psychophysical development of members of associations, but also expressed concern for the common good. Implemented by sports organizations preventive actions have a profound pedagogical dimension. Their main imperative was to take responsibility for the future of the young generations of Poles. Key words: social prevention, sports organizations, the partitions, the interwar period