Individualization

• 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

See also

• Individuation