<p>Abstract:</p><p>It is important to determine the optimal living accommodations depending on which stage of life a person is in. The authors of this paper present, with the help of previous studies, five different stages in life. They have also been in contact with eleven experts within the following areas: the house or apartments design such as architecture, the human beings´ private sphere, the area surrounding the living accommodations, environmental issues and energy consumption and the municipal standards and law regarding production and the building and restoration of old and new real-estate.</p><p>Purpose:</p><p>This paper aims to construct a handbook that covers the optimal living accommodations depending on in which lifecycle the focus is on .The handbook which has been developed, aims to help the people who operate on this market to coordinate their different areas of knowledge to provide the optimal living accommodations for each lifecycle.</p><p>Method:</p><p>A feasibility study has been carried out with the purpose of finding experts within each area mentioned above and also to have them be part of the semi-structured interviews that have been carried out.</p><p>Conclusions:</p><p>There are a lot of different factors which affects the way people wish to live. The conclusions made in this paper presents a handbook with recommendations on how cityplanners, politicians and contractors can offer the optimal living accommodations depending on different factors that influence the way we live, together with different stages of life.</p>

Abstract: It is important to determine the optimal living accommodations depending on which stage of life a person is in. The authors of this paper present, with the help of previous studies, five different stages in life. They have also been in contact with eleven experts within the following areas: the house or apartments design such as architecture, the human beings´ private sphere, the area surrounding the living accommodations, environmental issues and energy consumption and the municipal standards and law regarding production and the building and restoration of old and new real-estate. Purpose: This paper aims to construct a handbook that covers the optimal living accommodations depending on in which lifecycle the focus is on .The handbook which has been developed, aims to help the people who operate on this market to coordinate their different areas of knowledge to provide the optimal living accommodations for each lifecycle. Method: A feasibility study has been carried out with the purpose of finding experts within each area mentioned above and also to have them be part of the semi-structured interviews that have been carried out. Conclusions: There are a lot of different factors which affects the way people wish to live. The conclusions made in this paper presents a handbook with recommendations on how cityplanners, politicians and contractors can offer the optimal living accommodations depending on different factors that influence the way we live, together with different stages of life.

The shift from Modernism to Postmodernism had a dramatic impact on different spheres of life, especially on premarital relationships. The Song of songs has been used as basis theory in this study on premarital relationships. The study attempts to lay down guidelines for premarital relationships from the conviction that human relationships are grounded in God's love for man. The perspectives which have became evident are developed and evaluated through the meta-theory. Any study on young people in relationships must consider changes in society due to the fact that young people perform an important seismographic function. This is due to the fact that they are not only deeply affected by these changes but are also acting as indicators for the demands and challenges that changing times has on people and relationships. The lifecycle from late adolescence to early adulthood is studied. Special focus is given to different areas of development in this lifecycle as well as to different relationships young people are involved with. Qualitative interviews have been used to determine the effect of the Postmodernism and the specific lifecycle on young people in premarital relationships. A practice-orientated theoretical framework for pastoral guidance of young people in premarital relationships is drafted. / Thesis (Ph.D. (Pastoral))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2006.

The shift from Modernism to Postmodernism had a dramatic impact on different spheres of life, especially on premarital relationships. The Song of songs has been used as basis theory in this study on premarital relationships. The study attempts to lay down guidelines for premarital relationships from the conviction that human relationships are grounded in God's love for man. The perspectives which have became evident are developed and evaluated through the meta-theory. Any study on young people in relationships must consider changes in society due to the fact that young people perform an important seismographic function. This is due to the fact that they are not only deeply affected by these changes but are also acting as indicators for the demands and challenges that changing times has on people and relationships. The lifecycle from late adolescence to early adulthood is studied. Special focus is given to different areas of development in this lifecycle as well as to different relationships young people are involved with. Qualitative interviews have been used to determine the effect of the Postmodernism and the specific lifecycle on young people in premarital relationships. A practice-orientated theoretical framework for pastoral guidance of young people in premarital relationships is drafted. / Thesis (Ph.D. (Pastoral))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2006.

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Cette thèse porte sur les bakoroman, ces enfants et jeunes adultes qui vivent et dorment dans les rues de la capitale du Burkina Faso. Par le vol, la mendicité et les petits boulots, les bakoroman s’insèrent dans différentes niches de l’économie urbaine qui assurent leur survie au quotidien, l’accès à de nombreux loisirs et la possibilité d’envoyer occasionnellement de l’argent à leurs parents. Après deux ans d’observations ethnographiques, d’entretiens biographiques et de travaux quantitatifs auprès de bakoroman, d’anciens bakoroman et de leurs familles, je démontre que ce mode de vie erratique ne peut être interprété à priori comme un marqueur de désaffiliation du fait que la mobilité juvénile constitue localement une forme tolérée d’individualisation temporaire. Ainsi les bakoroman se présentent-ils comme de simples aventuriers « à la recherche de l’argent ». Leur position souvent fragile au sein de leur lignage d’origine, aggravée par un mode de vie désormais marqué par l’illégalité et la déviance, rend cependant invraisemblable la possibilité de ce retour réussi qui transformerait leur départ souvent chaotique en une expérience d’affirmation individuelle. Lorsqu’ils atteignent finalement l’âge de s’établir, les bakoroman comprennent que la conquête d’un statut valorisé ne passe pas par l’argent éphémère du bakoro mais par la capacité à soutenir durablement leur lignage, à inscrire leur propre « nom » dans sa généalogie et à assurer ainsi la perpétuation générationnelle. / This dissertation addresses the bakoroman, the street children and youth who live and sleep in the streets of the capital of Burkina Faso. Through theft, begging and petty jobs, the bakoroman participate in different niches of the urban economy that ensure their everyday survival, their access to various leisure activities and the possibility of sending occasional money to their parents. After two years of ethnographic observations, biographical interviews and quantitative data collection with the bakoroman, former bakoroman, and their families, I demonstrate that this erratic way of life should not automatically be interpreted as a marker of disaffiliation. Instead, juvenile mobility is considered as a normal form of temporary individualization in the local context. The bakoroman indeed describe themselves as young adventurers “in search of money”. But because of their usually fragile position in their lineage of origin, now exacerbated by a way of life shaped by illegality and deviance, the possibility of a brilliant return that would transform their often chaotic departures into an experience of personal affirmation appears unlikely. When they finally reach the age in which they are expected to settle down, they start to understand that a higher status is not obtained through the ephemeral money of bakoro but through the capacity to provide for their lineage, to inscribe their “own name” in its genealogy and to guarantee the generational perpetuation.