Antisemitism and the Constitution of SociologyModern antisemitism and the modern discipline of sociology not only emerged in the same period, butantagonism and hostility between the two discourses notwithstandingalso overlapped and complemented each other. Sociology emerged in a society where modernization was often perceived as destroying unity and social cohesion. Antisemitism was likewise a response to the modern age, offering in its vilifications of the Jew an explanation of societys