title: Situation
text: # Situation
  
  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, abbreviated sitcom, a type of television show
  
  ### 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, 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, 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
  