Hanging around with only middle class people?

University is full of mostly middle class people so is to some extent sixth form. Then if you get a graduate job it will be full of middle class people. So my question is do most people here only socialise with middle class people and so get used to it. It kind of becomes a bit like a bubble existence.

If most people here are higher education students and so by your own definition; middle class themselves... what is there to 'get used to' by being around a majority of other middle class people?

No some people here would have working class siblings or friends but I mean most people get used to the status quo of their life. Like if you are a vegetarian you would get used to it.

So those who have working class family or friends won't fall into the 'most' group you've used in your opening post.

By your definitions you are either:

- Middle class with all middle class friends.. and so have nothing to get 'used to'.

- Middle class but have some working class friends and so again have nothing to get 'used to'.

The only situation I think could apply would be if you came from a heavily working class background, went to university where you only socialised with middle class people while at the same time cutting all ties to your previous working class friends. In which case; Yes.. you probably would need to adapt yourself slightly.

If most people here are higher education students and so by your own definition; middle class themselves... what is there to 'get used to' by being around a majority of other middle class people?

OP didn't say that university students are middle class by definition. No sensible person would.

You seem to be wilfully excluding the possibility that a working class person could go to university and have something to get used to when their day-to-day social circles are largely composed of middle class people.

I think the act of going to university does kind of make you middle class. You're certainly not working class.. because you're not working. You may come from a working class household/background originally.

I see. Well I don't agree that you suddenly become middle class when you go to university. I think personal education is just one of many factors which determine class, such as household income, parental education and parental occupation. I don't personally think a class boundary can be traversed in a single generation.

Regardless, I think your characterisation of the working class is simplistic. If someone is born to a surveyor and a lawyer, lives in a five bed house in Surrey and goes to Westminster, and subsequently decides not to attend university but to go into theatre, does he suddenly become working class? I doubt it somehow. Why, then, would someone whose parents work as a plumber and a receptionist and who shares a bedroom with his sister suddenly become middle class by virtue of a certificate?

Going into the theatre is probably a poor example. Instead consider a manual labour job etc. In which case yes; I think the classes have changed by nature of education and employment.

My father and mother were both working class. Dad worked at the printers and mum was on oil ships. Neither went to university and we lived in a right to buy ex council house on a rough estate.

By your definitions I would be stuck as working class? I was certainly working class growing up. When does the class boundary shift if not upon entering higher education?

I come from a completely working class background, none of my family have degrees or higher education. I don't consider myself working class though. I don't have an awful lot of money as I'm a student but life is what you make of it for yourself, not what choices your family made. I don't think my background will disadvantage me in any way.

Upon having children. Your kids could be middle class.

Do you want to live like common people? Do you want to do whatever common people do? Do you want to sleep with common people?

I best start watching Jeremy kyle and drinking special brew then

That designates your family working class for the next twelve generations, according to The Rules.