Situation is a concept relating to a position (location) or a set of circumstances.
It also may refer to:
- Situation (song), a 1982 song by British new wave band Yazoo
- Situation (album), a 2007 album by Canadian musician Buck 65
- Situation comedy, a type of television show
- The Situation (TV personality), nickname of American reality TV personality Michael Sorrentino
- Situation (Sartre), a concept by Jean-Paul Sartre
- Situation report
Situated may refer to situated cognition
Situationism may refer to:
- The ideas of Situationist International, an international political and artistic movement of the 1960s
- Situationism (psychology), which holds that personality is more influenced by external factors than by internal traits or motivations
- In Situational ethics, the idea in ethics that the morality of an act is a function of the state of the system when it occurs
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Famous quotes containing the word situation:
“The situation is that of him who is helpless, cannot act, in the event cannot paint, since he is obliged to paint. The act is of him who, helpless, unable to act, acts, in the event paints, since he is obliged to paint.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)
“An actress reading a part for the first time tries many ways to say the same line before she settles into the one she believes suits the character and situation best. There’s an aspect of the rehearsing actress about the girl on the verge of her teens. Playfully, she is starting to try out ways to be a grown-up person.”
—Stella Chess (20th century)
“To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)