Seth and All of His Close Friends Are Fans of Country

Seth and all of his close friends are fans of country music, and in part their sense of identity is tied to being fans of that kind of music. When Seth's friends came over to his apartment to visit, they found him listening to one of his mother's jazz albums. They teased him for days afterward. What is the treatment that Seth's friends subjected him to an example of?

A) deviance
B) stigmatization
C) informal punishment
D) criminalization