Individualization

Individualization may refer to
*discrimination or perception of the individual within a group or species
**identification in forensics and intelligence
*the development of individual traits
**a central concept in the philosophy of C. G. Jung on personal development.
**in sociology and political theory, a process towards individualism (so in Hans T. Blokland, Georg Simmel, Ferdinand Tönnies)
**in recent sociology (Ulrich Beck and Elizabeth Beck-Gernsheim, Zygmunt Bauman) the consequence of social changes in late modernity, in which individuals are increasingly required to construct their own lives.
*in economics, separate taxation of married couples

ee also

*Individuation