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“Let us all help reduce if not totally eradicate poverty.” “There can never be continuing prosperity and peace if a great majority of our citizenry are underprivileged, deprived and living below comfortable standards.” “The poor are primarily responsible for their plight, as if naturally sustained in a culture of poverty from generation to generation.” From wherever source these words came from, either from sociologists, government leaders, religious groups, masses, politicians or change agents, a deeper understanding of these thoughts and beliefs (just to sample some of them) needs to be had before any significant change can happen. One way is to understand it from a social stratification point of view. Let us take one. According to the Davis-Moore assertion, social stratification is a universal pattern because it has beneficial consequences for the operation of a given society. It is implied in this statement that social stratification has a function or purpose that is why poverty, an indication of the lower strata, can never be removed no matter what programs of government or of any conscience-group is done. If this