In the past, students who could not give correct answers in class were sometimes forced to wear a tall cone-shaped hat called a "dunce cap" that was embarrassing and signified that they were dumb. This cap is an example of what Erving Goffman called

A) sanction
B) stigma
C) taboo
D) mos


B

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