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 Work, labor (labour in Commonwealth English), occupation or job is the intentional activity people perform to support the needs and desires of themselves, other people, or organizations. In the context of economics, work can be seen as the huma ...

People

The Situation (TV personality) Michael Paul Sorrentino (born July 4, 1982), also known as The Situation, is an American television personality. He appeared on all six seasons of the MTV reality show ''Jersey Shore'' from 2009 through 2012, and has since returned to the franc ...

, 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 An eponym is a noun after which or for which someone or something is, or is believed to be, named. Adjectives derived from the word ''eponym'' include ''eponymous'' and ''eponymic''. Eponyms are commonly used for time periods, places, innovati ...

album * "The Situation", a song by The Black Eyed Peas from the album ''

The Beginning The Beginning may refer to: Film * ''The Beginning'' (1970 film), a 1970 Soviet film * '' Missing in Action 2: The Beginning'', a 1985 American action film * '' Psycho IV: The Beginning'', a 1990 American horror film * ''Star Wars: Episode I � ...

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 Tucker may refer to: Places United States * Tucker, Arkansas * Tucker, Georgia * Tucker, Mississippi * Tucker, Missouri * Tucker, Utah, ghost town * Tucker County, West Virginia Outer space * Tucker (crater), a small lunar impact crater in ...

Other uses

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

Rhetorical situation A rhetorical situation is 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 the rhetorical situation in 196 ...

, the context of a rhetorical event *

Situation awareness Situational awareness or situation awareness, often abbreviated as SA is the understanding of an environment, its elements, and how it changes with respect to time or other factors. It is also defined as the perception of the elements in the envi ...

, the perception of environmental elements and events *

Situation report A command center (often called a war room) is any place that is used to provide centralized command for some purpose. While frequently considered to be a Military base, military facility, these can be used in many other cases by governments ...

, 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) Under the controversy of person–situation debate, situationism is the theory that changes in human behavior are factors of the situation rather than the traits a person possesses. Behavior is believed to be influenced by external, situational fa ...

, 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 Situational ethics or situation ethics takes into account ''only'' the particular context of an act when evaluating it ethically, rather than judging it only according to absolute moral standards. With the intent to have a fair basis for judgmen ...

, 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