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