Situation and its derivations may refer to:

Situation

Common uses

*A concept similar to scenario, 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

Music

* ''Situation'' (album), a 2007 album by Canadian musician Buck 65 * ''Situation'' (song), a 1982 song by British new wave band Yazoo * "Situation", a song by Godsmack from their '' eponymous'' album

Television

Situation comedy A sitcom, a portmanteau of situation comedy, or situational comedy, is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who mostly carry over from episode to episode. Sitcoms can be contrasted with sketch comedy, where a troupe may use ne ...

, abbreviated sitcom, a type of television show

Other uses

* ''Situation'' (Sartre), a concept by Jean-Paul Sartre *

Rhetorical situation The rhetorical situation is the circumstance of an event that consists of an issue, an audience, and a set of constraints. A rhetorical situation arises from a given context or exigence. An article by Lloyd Bitzer introduced the model of rhetorical ...

, the context of a rhetorical event * Situation awareness, the perception of environmental elements and events * Situation report, abbreviated sitrep

Situated

* Situated,

located In geography, location or place are used to denote a region (point, line, or area) on Earth's surface or elsewhere. The term ''location'' generally implies a higher degree of certainty than ''place'', the latter often indicating an entity with an ...

* Situated cognition, 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