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 Elisabeth 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
 * Personalized learning