Discrimination that occurs when people's preferences cause them to discriminate against a certain group is referred to as:

"social stratification refers to the way people are ranked and ordered in society. in western societies, stratification is primarily seen and understood as a result of socioeconomic status, which produces a hierarchy in which access to resources, and possession of them, increases from the lower to the upper strata"

answer; when circuit courts do not agree on a decision in similar fact pattern;