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The document discusses how a particular issue becomes a social problem through three processes: 1) being experienced by a large number of people, 2) being legitimized on the public agenda, and 3) being institutionalized through the creation of administrative bureaucracy and experts who define it as a problem. The author argues that sociologists should analyze these processes instead of taking for granted how social problems are defined by other agents.
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