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, under the term individuation.
  • 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
• personalization; using technology to accommodate the differences between individuals

See also

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• Individuation