A lot of different factors affect a person's political socialization. Personal factors, such as your family, social and economic classes, education and peer groups, all influence your political values. More general items, like the mass media and key world events, also affect your political values.
Growth plates are located at the ends of long bones such as the femur. It is the area from which growth occurs in the bone and is the last area of the bone to fully harden and turn from cartilage into bone.
The hip joint, or acetabulum, is responsible for many movements including walking, bending and crouching. It is a ball and socket joint, with the femur (top of the leg bone) sitting inside the acetabulum (hip socket). The head of the femur is a ball like bone structure that attaches to the rest of the femur by a section of bone called the femoral neck and sits inside the acetabular fossa.