While the international literature has significantly addressed the “new forms of voluntary action,” there has been limited attention paid so far to the reintermediation processes of contemporary volunteering. This paper intends to fill this gap. First, a research approach based on a renewed sociological consideration of volunteering, path dependency and strategic field theory is presented and four ideal–typical traditions of volunteering (active membership, direct, program-based and organize-it-yourselves) are introduced. Then the Italian case is explored. Although the analysis is only exploratory, it enables us to understand the coevolutions of the four traditions and to identify a new restructuration model based on professional agencies coming from the membership tradition. The paper can help future studies to reconsider the magnitude and dynamics of second modernity trends and to tackle continuities and changes in the reintermediation of volunteering in situated and processual terms.

虽然国际文献大量讨论了“志愿行动的新形式”，但迄今为止对当代志愿服务的再中介化过程的关注有限。本文旨在填补这一空白。首先，提出了一种基于对志愿服务、路径依赖和战略领域理论的新社会学考虑的研究方法，以及志愿服务的四种理想典型传统（积极会员、直接、基于项目和自行组织）) 介绍。然后探讨意大利的案例。虽然分析只是探索性的，但它使我们能够理解四种传统的共同演化，并确定一种基于会员制传统的专业机构的新重组模式。该论文可以帮助未来的研究重新考虑第二现代性趋势的规模和动态，并从情境和过程的角度解决志愿服务再中介的连续性和变化。