He graduated in 1982 and received his master's degree in 1988 from the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Belgrade on the topic Contribution to the Critique of Historical Materialism as a Philosophy of History.

He prepared and defended his doctoral dissertation on Theoretical and Methodological Problems of Studying the Evolution of Suburban Societies at the Department of Sociology of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade in 1995, where he teaches general sociology, power theory and contemporary political theory.

[1][2] He worked as a researcher at the Institute for Political Studies in Belgrade (1990–1996), taught sociology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad (1996–2001), and since 2001 has been employed at the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade (assistant professor 2001, associate professor).

Antonić criticised Stojanović's scientific conclusions about the role of the Serbian quisling forces in The Holocaust in German-occupied Serbia and considered her work on the subject to be meet the criteria of historical revisionism.

[6] In April 2022, Antonić signed a petition calling for Serbia not to impose sanctions on Russia after it invaded Ukraine.