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
Work or labor (or labour in British English) is intentional activity people perform to support the needs and wants of themselves, others, or a wider community. In the context of economics, work can be viewed as the human activity that contr ...
People
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''The Situation'' (TV personality), nickname of American reality TV personality Michael Sorrentino
Arts, entertainment, and media
Music
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''Situation'' (album), a 2007 album by Canadian musician Buck 65
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''Situation'' (song), a 1982 song by British new wave band Yazoo
* "Situation", a song by Godsmack from their ''
eponymous'' album
Television
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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
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''Situation'' (Sartre), a concept by Jean-Paul Sartre
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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
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Situation awareness, the perception of environmental elements and events
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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 facility, these can be used in many other cases by governments or businesses. ...
, 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 ...
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Situated cognition, a theory that posits that knowing is inseparable from doing
Situationism
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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 fac ...
, 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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The Situation (disambiguation) The Situation can refer to:
* ''The Situation'' (film), a 2006 film
* Michael Sorrentino (born 1982), known as "The Situation", American television personality
* ''The Situation'', the former name of the MSNBC show ''Tucker''
* "The Situation", a ...
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