Situation
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| - | # The way in which something is positioned [[vis-à-vis]] its surroundings. | + | '''Situation''' is a [[concept]] relating to a [[position]] ([[location]]) or a set of [[circumstance]]s. |
| - | #* '''1908:''' [[Kenneth Grahame]], ''[[The Wind in the Willows]]'' | + | ==Etymology== |
| - | #*: ...he being naturally an underground animal by birth and breeding, the '''situation''' of Badger's house exactly suited him and made him feel at home; while the Rat, who slept every night in a bedroom the windows of which opened on a breezy river, naturally felt the atmosphere still and oppressive. | + | From Latin ''[[situs]]'' (“a [[site]]”). |
| - | # The place in which something is situated; a [[location]]. | + | ==See also== |
| - | # Position or [[status]] with regard to conditions and circumstances. | + | *[[Situation comedy]], a type of television show |
| - | # The combination of circumstances at a given moment; a [[state of affairs]]. | + | *[[Situated cognition]] |
| - | # A position of employment; a [[post]]. | + | * 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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Situation is a concept relating to a position (location) or a set of circumstances.
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Etymology
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See also
- Situation comedy, a type of television show
- Situated cognition
- 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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