This article presents the salient elements of a brief survey of six small groups composed of youths with no fixed address, all of whom frequent community housing centres. Specifically, it presents the results of semi-focussed interviews intended to cast light on the representation of the social such as it appears in shared youth discourse. This exercise in "spontaneous sociology" discloses an image of society which resembles in many ways that of postmodern thought: a loss of confidence in the rationality of the social order, institutional lag and dys-functionality vis-a-vis the rapid evolution of society and the loss of anchors for identity in the social space.