BOULDING AMONG THE STRUCTURALISTS

The character of structuralism is given as studies of systems of perce ption wherein the author interposes an organizing element between obse rvation and perception. The organizing element for Piaget is the cogni tive structure, for Foucault the epistime, for Kuhn the paradigm, for Solo ideology, and for Boulding the image. The idea and significance o f ''the image'' in Boulding's book The Image is analyzed and the place of that work in Boulding's grand project, to create a universal scien ce, is indicated.