Situation and its derivations may refer to:
Situation
Common uses
*A concept similar to
scenario
In the performing arts, a scenario (, ; ; from Italian , "that which is pinned to the scenery") is a synoptical collage of an event or series of actions and events. In the ''commedia dell'arte'', it was an outline of entrances, exits, and actio ...
, relating to a position (location) or a set of circumstances.
*A
job
People
*
The Situation (TV personality), nickname of American reality TV personality Michael Sorrentino
Arts, entertainment, and media
Film
*
''The Situation'' (film), a 2006 film
Music
*
''Situation'' (album), a 2007 album by Canadian musician Buck 65
*
''Situation'' (song), a 1982 song by British new wave band Yazoo
*"Situation", a 2024 song by A Little Sound; an interpolation of the 2000 Sugababes single "
Overload"
* "Situation", a song by Godsmack from their
eponymous album
* "The Situation", a song by The Black Eyed Peas from the album ''
The Beginning''
Television
*
Situation comedy
A sitcom (short for situation comedy or situational comedy) is a genre of comedy produced for radio and television, that centers on a recurring cast of character (arts), characters as they navigate humorous situations within a consistent settin ...
, abbreviated sitcom, a type of television show
* ''The Situation'', the former name of the MSNBC show ''
Tucker''
Other uses
*
''Situation'' (Sartre), a concept by Jean-Paul Sartre
*
Rhetorical situation, the context of a rhetorical event
*
Situation awareness, the perception of environmental elements and events
*
Situation report, abbreviated sitrep
Situated
* Situated,
located
*
Situated cognition
Situated cognition is a theory that posits that knowing is inseparable from doing by arguing that all knowledge is situated in activity bound to social, cultural and physical contexts.
Situativity theorists suggest a model of knowledge and learnin ...
, a theory that posits that knowing is inseparable from doing
Situationism
*
Situationism (psychology), which holds that personality is more influenced by external factors than by internal traits or motivations
*Situationism, the ideas of
Situationist International
The Situationist International (SI) was an international organization of social revolutionaries made up of avant-garde artists, intellectuals, and political theorists. It was prominent in Europe from its formation in 1957 to its dissolution ...
, an international political and artistic movement of the 1960s
*Sitationism, in
situational ethics, the idea in ethics that the morality of an act is a function of the state of the system when, or context where it occurs
See also
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